Worldwide roundwood prices are falling, but there is still a constant distance between the high German and significantly lower international softwood roundwood prices, which determines a crucial competitive disadvantage for the German sawmill industry.   Although the Global Sawlog Price Index (GSPI) has fallen sharply, the German sawyers can't benefit. Moreover, the German sawmill industry expects a pressure on prices in 2016, especially on sawmill by-products, in relation with high raw material purchase costs.  The positive softwood lumber trade balance in favour of exports has shrunk dramatically over the course of 2015. Germany's exports ...