Global Timber Squeezed as Tariffs make 2025 a Year to Forget

Tariff whiplash in the U.S., Europe’s EUDR delay and Russia’s collapse combined to make 2025 one of the toughest years the global timber sector has faced in decades.

It’s fair to say many in the forest supply chain will be happy to see the back of 2025. All through the year, we have reported on an industry under pressure — a level of strain that producers across three continents have described as a perfect storm. Tariffs, creeping costs and policy uncertainty have unsettled markets in North America, Europe and Russia, while slowing timber flows into the Asia‑Pacific region.

In North America — and increasingly worldwide — traders spent much of the year navigating Donald Trump’s on‑again, off‑again tariff regime. Combined with the latest U.S. Department of Commerce review of Canadian softwood duties, the measures pushed anti‑dumping and countervailing rates on U.S.-bound lumber above 30 per cent for large volumes of cross‑border trade.

Article created by our partner – Jason Ross – Wood Central

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