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Madison’s Forest Pulse 4Q 2014 — Out Now!
Important Lumber Production and Export Data: • US sawmill products exports to China by VALUE are up +20%, to US$1,199 million, Jan to Nov 2014 compared to US$959 million the previous year; • US sawmill products imports from Canada by VALUE are up +9%, to US$4,939 million, Jan to Nov 2014 over US$4,498 million in…
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US Forest Service Wood Pellet Report
In December 2014 the US Forest Service Southern Research Station released A Technical Document Supporting the Forest Service Update of the 2010 RPA Assessment, “Effect of Policies on Pellet Production and Forests in the US South,” which examines the most recent “key drivers of US pellet feedstock supply include both the age structure of current…
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Canada Building Permits: December 2014
Contractors took out building permits worth $7.1 billion in December, up 7.7% from November. This followed a 13.6% decline the previous month. The increase in December resulted mostly from higher construction intentions in the non-residential sector in Alberta and British Columbia.
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Canada and US International Trade: December 2014
Canada’s imports increased by 2.3 per cent in December and exports rose 1.5 per cent, according to Statistics Canada Thursday. As a result, Canada’s merchandise trade deficit with the world widened from $335 million in November to $649 million in December. Meanwhile, the US goods and services deficit was US$46.6 billion in December, up from…
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Producer Price Index Canada, ISM Index US
Canada’s Industrial Product Price Index decreased 1.6 per cent in December, Statistics Canada said Tuesday. The Raw Materials Price Index declined 7.6 per cent in December, mainly due to lower prices for crude energy products. Meanwhile the US ISM Non-manufacturing index in January was at 56.7 per cent, up from 56.5 per cent in December,…
