Tag: EUTR

  • Lumber News Archives: December 2013

    Industrial Biomaterials Programs ; Logging Truck Accidents ; Housing Starts, Canada ; US Home Foreclosures, FHA Budget Shortfall US Construction, Housing ; Madison’s Timber Preview ; State of Canada’s Forests Report 2013 ; Japan Housing Starts ; Sawmill Fire Quickly Contained ; Canada Building Permits ; Trade Surplus, Canada EUTR Update ; Madison’s Announces .…

  • Illegal Timber Harvesting

    Illegal Timber Harvesting Fast on the heels of the US Lacey Act and Europe’s EUTR legislation prohibiting the import of illegally harvested timber, this week Australia officially approved it’s own similar law. Australia’s parliament on Monday passed legislation to ban the import and trade of illegally logged timber, joining the United States and European Union…