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Southern Pine Lumber Exports: 2015
Southern Pine exports finished 2015 at a record volume of just over 589 million board feet (MMbf), a jump of 7 per cent above the 2014 export total, according to the USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service Thursday. In the past five years, exports of Southern Pine lumber have more than doubled. SYP Lumber Exports, 2015 During…
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US Construction Material Prices: Jan 2016
Construction input prices fell by 0.6 per cent during January 2016 according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics Producer Price Index released Wednesday. Construction input prices are down 2.7 per cent from January 2015 and have now decreased on a year-over- year basis for 14 consecutive months, according to the Associated Builders and Contractors…
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Madison’s Lumber Reporter *sample* issue Feb 19 ’16
Get the View on North American Softwood Lumber Markets A weekly newsletter detailing current US and Canadian softwood lumber and panel prices If you deal regularly, or even just occasionally, with North American softwood lumber products, then you should have Madison’s Lumber Reporter on your desk every week. Madison’s has been publishing quality news and…
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Canada-US Softwood Lumber Discussions
Ottawa and Washington have begun talks toward renewing a pact regarding the export of Canadian lumber to US markets, Canada’s trade minister, Chrystia Freeland told lawmakers in Ottawa Thursday, said NASDAQ.com. Freeland said Canadian negotiators were in Washington last week to meet with their US counterparts about a new lumber-trade agreement. A spokesperson for the…
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2015 US Construction Starts Snapshot: CMD
Total construction starts in the US grew by 3.7 per cent in 2015 to reach US$527 billion, a slowdown from the 7.4 per cent growth posted in 2014 said a new report by Construction Market Data Group, published February 5. US 2015 Construction Starts Snapshot: CMD by ABBY SAMP, OXFORD ECONOMICS, for Daily Commercial News…
