Plywood prices on a firming trend

“Far East and China FOB rates haven’t changed a lot, but prices have of course been driven by the logistic costs,” said an EU importer-distributor. “For Africa and South America logistic cost have remained more stable, but FOB rates increased throughout Q1and Q2 this year.” A UK importer qualified this by saying that Brazilian plywood prices were still below their previous peak, kept down by cuts in the price for competing EU-made OSB which manufacturers have made to ‘combat imports’. Another European importer said their best performers so far this year have been ‘Chinese commodity and ...