{"id":80625,"date":"2021-04-22T10:46:15","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T10:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tin.happy-projects.ro\/germany-massive-exports-us-put-pressure-domestic-wood-prices\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T08:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:55:11","slug":"germany-massive-exports-us-put-pressure-domestic-wood-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timberindustrynews.com\/ro\/germany-massive-exports-us-put-pressure-domestic-wood-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany: Massive exports to the US put pressure on domestic wood prices"},"content":{"rendered":"

The German wood market is divided into two parts.\u00a0While wood prices are only rising very slowly for German forest owners, sawmills and exporters make real money.<\/em><\/p>\n

Most recently, the prices for spruce were around 9 percent higher than at the height of the market crisis last autumn.\u00a0On the other hand, forest owners in Germany still get a third less for spruce than they did two years ago.<\/p>\n

At the same time, the German\u00a0wood market is\u00a0empty.\u00a0The reason: With exports to the USA and China, the demand is going through the roof.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, many\u00a0forest\u00a0owners cut much less wood than usual because of the very low prices.\u00a0That means: The market is extremely scarce and wood is currently in short supply!<\/span><\/p>\n

In\u00a0addition to the forest owners, who have to cope with the very low prices, the\u00a0victims are\u00a0many craftsmen and the local construction industry, who are dependent on construction timber.\u00a0They often have to pay very high surcharges for the goods that are still available on the market.<\/p>\n

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Price evolution of spruce:<\/strong>\u00a0Most recently, the prices for spruce in Germany were around 9 percent higher than at the height of the market crisis last autumn. On the other hand, German forest owners still get a third less for spruce than they did two years ago<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Only a more rapid\u00a0price increase at producer level\u00a0could actually help,\u00a0which would also lead to better supply, at least in the medium term.\u00a0Because then it would be worthwhile to bring more goods onto the market.<\/p>\n

Forest owner Peter Erhard from Aindling told German Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) that the prices for fresh spruce have only increased by 10 euros to 80 euros per cubic meter since autumn. Erhard also confirms that the gap between the prices that the sawmills get for the sawn timber in export and partly also on the domestic market, and the prices that the forest owners are paid for their wood, is widening.\u00a0The forest owner also confirms that he has felled around 80 percent less wood than usual this winter - like many other forest owners.<\/p>\n

Because of the very low\u00a0wood prices\u00a0.German market swept dry - construction industry with problems<\/strong><\/p>\n

One reason for the lack of wood on the domestic market is the booming export.\u00a0German sawmills and exporters report that large quantities of German wood are flowing into the USA in particular.<\/p>\n

In America, spruce sawn timber, which was recently so vilified in Germany, is in extremely high demand.\u00a0The Americans pay 60 percent higher prices than on the domestic market, report exporters.<\/p>\n

Of course, this pulls off an enormous amount of goods and could only be slowed down by further increases in prices on the domestic market.\u00a0But in Germany, the supply is often no longer a question of price - often there is simply no more goods available, and when goods are offered, the price surcharges are enormous.<\/p>\n

In addition: Despite the high prices that the Americans pay, the wood from Europe is still much cheaper in the USA than the domestic material.<\/p>\n

One reason: In the USA, many wood production facilities are not working or only working at half speed due to the coronavirus criss.\u00a0In any case, the timber price on the US domestic market has been going through the roof since last fall.<\/p>\n

In addition: the huge corona aid package from the US government, part of this money apparently also flows into the US wood industry.\u00a0Companies can then pay much higher prices for imports.<\/p>\n

The current US import statistics confirm this import boom: In the first two months of this year alone, the Americans imported around 33 percent more softwood sawn timber from Germany and 22 percent more hardwood sawn timber.\u00a0In both areas, Germany is now the second largest supplier - clearly after Canada.<\/p>\n

The result: an empty German timber market. ''Local construction companies and craftsmen are now buying everything they can get on the timber market,'' says Klaus Haller of the Nuremberg Building Guild. Because of this the warehouses of the German construction industry are empty.<\/p>\n

The run on the lumber increases the shortage even more.\u00a0A change in the situation is obviously not in sight anytime soon.\u00a0Because for that to happen, more wood would have to flow from the forest owners to the market - and that fails because the producer prices for wood are too low.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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