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Pandemic-related supply constraints likely in new year<\/em><\/h3>\n

A year marked by high demand, supply constraints, and mercurial commodities pricing likely will lead to continued volatility for at least the first half of 2021, some wood products industry observers say.<\/span><\/p>\n

The pandemic has caused many people to engage in do-it-yourself home projects, says Shawn Church, editor of the Eugene, Ore.-based FastMarkets Random Lengths.<\/p>\n

Church says retail demand for lumber has been high for most of 2020. Part of that is due to a trend of people staying home more and wanting to enhance the spaces where they now find themselves spending the bulk of their time. Church says another driver of retail demand is people have more funds for home improvements, because they aren\u2019t spending as much on travel and other activities.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear to what extent consumer behaviors could revert to pre-pandemic patterns after a vaccine is widely distributed, Church says, but he believes consumers will pivot back to spending more on service-related parts of the economy and spending less on home construction projects.<\/p>\n

However, continued high demand and supply constraints could create problems in 2021.<\/p>\n

Church says this year\u2019s supply issues can be traced back to the initial reaction of the wood products industry to news of the COVID-19 outbreak.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe (lumber mill) curtailments and shutdowns related to the outbreak of the pandemic overshot what the true demand situation was, and it left the market way undersupplied going into this building season,\u201d Church says.<\/p>\n

A continued lack of qualified skilled labor also has impacted supply, and the workforce shortage has been compounded by the effects of the pandemic, Church says.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere have been some cases where people have contracted the virus, and that puts them out of commission for a while,\u201d Church says. \u201cIt unleashes protocols for sanitation of the plants, and that\u2019s very disruptive to production.\u201d<\/p>\n

Church says overall framing lumber commodity prices bounced from about $375 per 1,000 board feet at the beginning of the year, to $348 on April 10, to a record high of $955 per 1,000 board feet on Sept. 18. An eight-week market correction brought commodity prices back down to about $567 at the end of November, not far from the 2018 market peak of $582.<\/p>\n

Dustin Jalbert, senior economist for wood products at forest products commodities data and market analysis provider FastMarkets RISI, says lumber pricing volatility is likely to continue into 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis volatile, elevated pricing you\u2019re seeing for lumber\u2014prices almost double levels you typically see\u2014is going to persist for at least several months into 2021,\u201d Jalbert says.<\/p>\n

Church says the outlook for 2021\u2019s wood products will be affected by a surge in salvage harvesting of timber damaged in last summer\u2019s devastating wildfires, as well as by recently announced lowered duties on Canadian lumber.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Department of Commerce announced in late November that it had lowered the average duty rate on Canadian softwood lumber imports to 8.9% from the 2018 rate of 20.2%. Church says about one-third of U.S. lumber consumption is fed by Canadian suppliers.<\/p>\n

\u201cLower duties means the Canadians are suddenly more competitive,\u201d Church says. \u201cThey\u2019ll probably see some share gains into the U.S. market heading into 2021.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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