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May 27, 2025

Plywood importers face ‘perfect storm’, while OSB prices eye a climb

This all appears to be part of a “perfect storm” for plywood importers. They are already grappling with the demands of the EUDR/UKDR (Deforestation Regulations) replacing the EUTR/UKTR (Timber Regulations) in December 2025; and with anti-dumping investigations into both Chinese and Brazilian plywood imports. Now they have the uncertainties caused by President Trump in global markets, which were reeling from the actual and potential impacts of the tariff changes. Although timber and panel products do remain tariff-free (at the time of writing anyway), products made from them do not. “There is a coniferous plywood quota ...

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