Sweden’s Sawmills are again exporting more soft lumber to Great Britain. After sharp declines at the beginning of the year, deliveries between January and the end of May registered a deficit of only 0.6%. Compared with the same month of last year, the average price of profiled timber sank by 7.9% and is about 1924 SEK/m3 (187.6 € /m3). Export prices for spruce lumber (raw) are about 1,760.8 SEK/m3 (-1,4% / 171.7 € /m3) and for pine (raw) at 1,614.3 SEK/m3 (-5,6% / 157.4 € / m3).
Country | I-V 2008 (m3) |
I-V 2009 (m3) |
Change |
Great Britain | 1,213,500 | 1,206,000 | -0.62% |
Egypt | 370,000 | 583,300 | 57.65% |
Germany | 403,600 | 431,600 | 6.94% |
Netherlands | 436,500 | 423,100 | -3.07% |
Denmark | 490,200 | 399,600 | -18.48% |
Japan | 219,300 | 317,500 | 44.78% |
Norway | 406,900 | 297,200 | -26.96% |
France |
289,200 | 285,300 | -1.35% |
Algeria | 121,500 | 191,000 | 57.20% |
Morocco | 121,000 | 177,700 | 46.86% |
Belgium | 131,300 | 134,300 | 2.28% |
Spain | 155,000 | 89,200 | -42.45% |
USA | 44,700 | 77,000 | 72.26% |
Tunisia | 48,100 | 68,800 | 43.04% |