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Initial industry feedback suggests that given the historic tax on Canadian softwood lumber shipments to the United States, the inclusion of more delivered Canadian locations will provide further transparency to markets on both sides of the border.
Assessments with similar specifications are grouped and are as follows:
Kiln-dried western spruce-pine-fir 2&btr 2×4 rl delivered Vancouver, C$/mbfKiln-dried western spruce-pine-fir 2&btr 2×6 rl delivered Vancouver, C$/mbfKiln-dried western spruce-pine-fir 2&btr 2×8 rl delivered Vancouver, C$/mbfKiln-dried western spruce-pine-fir 2&btr 2×10 rl delivered Vancouver, C$/mbfKiln-dried western spruce-pine-fir 2&btr 2×12 rl delivered Vancouver, C$/mbfKiln-dried western spruce-pine-fir 2&btr 2×4 rl delivered Calgary, C$/mbfKiln-dried western spruce-pine-fir 2&btr 2×6 rl delivered Calgary, C$/mbfKiln-dried western spruce-pine-fir 2&btr 2×8 rl delivered Calgary, C$/mbfKiln-dried western spruce-pine-fir 2&btr 2×10 rl delivered Calgary, C$/mbfKiln-dried western spruce-pine-fir 2&btr 2×12 rl delivered Calgary, C$/mbfQuality: Western S-P-F #2&btr 2×4-2×12, random lengthsQuantity: Carload or truckloadLocation: Delivered Vancouver and CalgaryTiming: Spot price, 2-4-week ship timeUnit: per thousand board feetPayment terms: C$Publication: Weekly, Thursday between 2:30pm PT and 3:30pm PT (subject to holidays)Notes: Prices will initially be published on Fastmarkets’ Dashboard but will be included in the weekly lumber report in early 2026.
Kiln-dried western spruce-pine-fir msr 1650f 2×4 rl delivered Vancouver, C$/mbfKiln-dried western spruce-pine-fir msr 2100f 2×4 rl delivered Vancouver, C$/mbfKiln-dried western spruce-pine-fir msr 1650f 2×6 rl delivered Vancouver, C$/mbfKiln-dried western spruce-pine-fir msr 2100f 2×4 rl delivered Vancouver, C$/mbfQuality: Western S-P-F msr 1650f and 2100f 2×4 and 2×6, random lengthsQuantity: Carload or truckloadLocation: Delivered VancouverTiming: Spot price, 2-4-week ship timeUnit: per thousand board feetPayment terms: C$Publication: Weekly, Thursday between 2:30pm PT and 3:30pm PT (subject to holidays)Notes: Prices will initially be published on Fastmarkets’ Dashboard but will be included in the weekly lumber report in early 2026.
Kiln-dried eastern spruce-pine-fir 1&2 2×4 8-ft delivered Montreal, C$/mbfKiln-dried eastern spruce-pine-fir 1&2 2×4 10-ft delivered Montreal, C$/mbfKiln-dried eastern spruce-pine-fir 1&2 2×4 12-ft delivered Montreal, C$/mbfKiln-dried eastern spruce-pine-fir 1&2 2×4 14-ft delivered Montreal, C$/mbfKiln-dried eastern spruce-pine-fir 1&2 2×4 16-ft delivered Montreal, C$/mbfKiln-dried eastern spruce-pine-fir 1&2 2×6 8-ft delivered Montreal, C$/mbfKiln-dried eastern spruce-pine-fir 1&2 2×6 10-ft delivered Montreal, C$/mbfKiln-dried eastern spruce-pine-fir 1&2 2×6 12-ft delivered Montreal, C$/mbfKiln-dried eastern spruce-pine-fir 1&2 2×6 14-ft delivered Montreal, C$/mbfKiln-dried eastern spruce-pine-fir 1&2 2×6 16-ft delivered Montreal, C$/mbfQuality: Eastern S-P-F #1&2 2×4 and 2×6 -8,10,12,14,16-foot specified lengthsQuantity: Carload or truckloadLocation: Delivered MontrealTiming: Spot price, 2-4-week ship timeUnit: per thousand board feetPayment terms: C$Publication: Weekly, Thursday between 2:30pm PT and 3:30pm PT (subject to holidays)Notes: Prices will initially be published on Fastmarkets’ Dashboard but will be included in the weekly lumber report in early 2026.
Kiln-dried eastern spruce-pine-fir msr 1650f 2×4 rl delivered Toronto, C$/mbfKiln-dried eastern spruce-pine-fir msr 2100f 2×4 rl delivered Toronto, C$/mbfKiln-dried eastern spruce-pine-fir msr 1650f 2×6 rl delivered Toronto, C$/mbfQuality: Eastern S-P-F msr 1650f and 2100f 2×4 and 1650f 2×6, random lengthsQuantity: Carload or truckloadLocation: Delivered TorontoTiming: Spot price, 2-4-week ship timeUnit: per thousand board feetPayment terms: C$Publication: Weekly, Thursday between 2:30pm and 3:30pm PT (subject to holidays)Notes: Prices will initially be published on Fastmarkets’ Dashboard but will be included in the weekly lumber report in early 2026.
These prices will be a part of the Fastmarkets wood products package.
The consultation period for this proposed launch starts from November 5 and will end on December 3. The launch will take place, subject to market feedback, on December 18, 2025.
To provide feedback on these prices or if you would like to provide price information by becoming a data submitter, please contact pricing@fastmarkets.com and wood@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading “re: Western S-P-F and eastern S-P-F delivered Canadian lumber assessments.”
Please indicate if comments are confidential. Fastmarkets will consider all comments received and will make comments not marked as confidential available upon request.
To see all Fastmarkets pricing methodology and specification documents, go to the Fastmarkets methodology page.
(The start and end dates for the consultation period have been amended to November 5 and December 3 respectively.)