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Japan Housing Starts: November 2016
Housing starts in Japan for November were 85,051 units, a 6.7 per cent increase over 2015 and a 2.5 per cent drop from October, according the Japan Lumber Reports Thursday. Japan Housing Starts: November 2016 The accumulated total of starts for eleven months in 2016 was 888,831, a 6.8 per cent increase over the previous…
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Canada Railcar Loadings: October 2016
The volume of rail freight carried in Canada totalled 31.3 million tonnes in October, down 0.6 per cent from the same month last year, said Statistics Canada Thursday. In October, freight originating in Canada decreased 0.3 per cent from the same month last year to 28.5 million tonnes. In comparison, tonnages of logs and other…
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US ITC Confirms “Material Injury”
An email last week from Canada’s federal department of Global Affairs provides the latest updates on this Canada-US softwood lumber dispute: “The US International Trade Commission (ITC) today confirmed that they have preliminarily determined that the US industry is materially injured by virtue of imports of Canadian softwood lumber into the United States. This is…
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US Construction Labour Shortage
Also at the NAHB Design and Construction Week, was a lot of conversation about a looming and serious shortage in skilled construction labour. During a three-hour seminar Wednesday morning, builders shared tips for finding and training newcomers and maintaining ties with their trades when labour is hard to find. US Home Builders and Skilled-Labor Shortage:…
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National Association of Home Builders: January 2017
The annual International Builders’ Show was held by the National Association of Home Builders in Orlando, FL, this week. US Housing Market: 2017 Forecast At the annual International Builders’ Show was held by the National Association of Home Builders in Orlando, FL, this week, attendees were told almost 50,000 apartments are being built in North…
