Median existing-home price rose 1.8% year-over-year to $440,600.
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection will keep collecting cash deposits on covered Chinese wood mouldings and millwork imports.
The companies ended their 20-year cooperation amicably and will complete ongoing projects together.
The company plans closures in Illinois, California and New Jersey and will end preprint work at its Richwood, Kentucky, facility.
Elevated mortgage rates and economic uncertainty weigh on buyer demand as new-home inventory reaches a 10.3-month supply.
May purchases were 27% below the five‑year monthly average; standing-sales sawlog prices rose 1–2% while softwood pulpwood prices fell.
Slower household formation, reduced immigration, weak home sales, and a shortage of low-cost housing are expected to weigh on demand and affordability.
Housing starts ran at a 1.18 million annualized pace in May as multifamily starts dropped; single-family starts were 882,000 units.
Softwood lumber prices remained 5.1% above year-earlier levels, while final-demand producer prices rose 6.4% from a year earlier.
The first operation outside Brazil will use local pine to make finished export goods and will start with 150 employees, rising to more than 400 at full development.
Both non-residential and residential sectors contributed to the monthly decline, with institutional and multi-family components posting the largest losses.
India took 73% of shipments.
The recommendations cover regulation, procurement and innovation and name departmental leads and timelines for potential adoption of Irish-grown timber
Median existing-home price rose to $429,300 while total inventory reached 1.55 million units, a 4.5-month supply.
The plan sets four pillars — secure competitive wood fibre, invest in modernization and innovation, expand domestic and international markets, and support workers and communities, and will feed into a formal Forest Sector Strategy by the end of 2026.
Cedar and Spruce/Fir stud lumber rose year-on-year while cypress fell and softwood plywood held steady.
The proposal keeps an exemption process and sets July deadlines, while the determination cites illegal logging and timber laundering as factors that distort wood-product pricing.
Funding will support low-carbon wood technologies, mass timber housing, Indigenous participation and export diversification while ministers review Task Force recommendations
Japan and the United States were the largest destinations, accounting for about 25% and 23% of volume respectively.
Institutional investment, fast-growing Southern Yellow Pine and advanced sawmill technology are positioning the Southeast as a steady supplier for engineered structural products.