Price for lumber imported to Tunisia slid 2.8%.
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Price for plywood imported to Taiwan dipped 4.2%.
Sales fell 8.8% from a year earlier, while unsold inventory rose 4.6% over the same period.
Sweden's share slipped 4.8 percentage points, while Norway's shipments grew 1.5-fold.
The United States remained the largest supplier, while Canada's shipments climbed 68.3% from a year earlier.
Compared with the previous month, production was down 2.4%.
Residential permits fell 5.8% from August, with single-family permits up 2%.
Price for lumber imported to the UK decreased 12.6%.
Price for wood chips imported to the UK lost 11%.
Plywood prices jumped 30% from a year earlier, while glulam and logs also rose on the month.
Rolpin's debts exceeded its assets by ¥5.18 billion, and Japan's Nankai Plywood set aside the same amount in case its loans are not repaid.
Its Mackenzie sawmill made no lumber in the third quarter, and C$10.2 million of the federal loan remains undrawn.
GreenFirst expects to book C$25.7 million in additional U.S. duties for 2024 shipments in the fourth quarter.
Timber growers are pitching mass timber to data-center developers as a housing slump forces sawmill closures.
Exports fell 3% in January–August, and the sawmill association sees no quick turn for the better.
Softwood sawlog stocks fell 6% and pulpwood 5% from the end of June, while pulp chip stocks dropped by almost a quarter.
Pending sales fell 3.6% from September to the lowest since 2013 apart from April 2020, with mortgage rates at a three-year high.
Pulp logs rose 6% from the second quarter, while L1 and L2 unpruned sawlogs fell 1%.
Price for lumber imported to Egypt contracted 13.2%.
Compared with the previous month, production was up 17.6%.