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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…
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BC Dimension Cedar Producers Hike Prices in Anticipation of Softwood Lumber Duties
Dimension cedar mills in Lower Mainland, British Columbia, pushed their prices up another ten per cent, with plans for further hikes designed to mitigate forthcoming retroactive duties on their US-bound shipments. At least one large producer was “working hard” at getting Western red cedar exempted from the ongoing and embittered US-Canada Softwood Lumber Dispute. In…
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Western Wood Products Association: Lumber Track October 2016
Western US lumber production dipped 3.7 per cent in November 2016, from 1.17 BBF in October to 1.13 BBF, according to the Western Wood Products Association‘s monthly Lumber Track. Year-over-year, western production in November rose 9 per cent compared to November 2015. Through November of last year, western production totalled 12.82 BBF, an increase of…
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US Sawmill Imports, Canada Sawmill Exports: November 2016
Brand-new data released Thursday by Industry Canada and US Census Bureau shows a continued glowing picture for US softwood lumber consumption, imports, and Canadian lumber exports to US. US Sawmill Products Imports: November 2016 A major glitch in US Census data reported at the beginning of 2015 nothwithstanding, US sawmill products imports from the world…
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USITC Votes to Continue Investigations on Softwood Lumber Products from Canada
THE USITC FRIDAY DETERMINED: https://www.usitc.gov/press_room/news_release/2017/er0106ll702.htm January 6, 2017 News Release 17-003 Inv. No. 701-TA-566 and 731-TA-1342 Contact: Peg O’Laughlin, 202-205-1819 USITC Votes to Continue Investigations on Softwood Lumber Products from Canada The United States International Trade Commission (USITC) today determined that there is a reasonable indication that a U.S. industry is materially injured by reason…
