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Japan Wood Products Under TPP Deal
Further to details provided in the October 9 issue of your Madison’s Lumber Reporter (please see Page 6 of that issue), of the main 15 common wood product items, tariffs on six items will be abolished immediately while for LVL and laminated lumber tariffs will be reduced evenly over ten years the totally abolished, said…
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EU Aid to Combat Ilegal Timber Deemed “Ineffective”
The EU aid programme, called Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT), covered 35 countries, including Indonesia, Brazil, Honduras, Cameroon, and Liberia. According to the auditors, “the limited financial and technical support has been spread over a large number of countries, some of which were not the key ones for tackling illegal logging”. “This diluted…
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Madison’s Weekly Key Prices Additions
Due to changes in market dynamics between volumes of Western Spruce-Pine-Fir dimension lumber produced and sold in North America, and that of Southern Yellow Pine and Eastern Spruce-Pine-Fir, Madison’s Lumber Reporter has added these last two commodities to our weekly Key Prices table and graphs. Madison’s Weekly Key Prices Additions
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Madison’s Lumber Reporter KEY PRICES Week of 10/23/15
A selection of Key Lumber and Panel Prices, to be published in this week’s issue of Madison’s Lumber Reporter: WSPF KD R/L 2×4 #2&Btr . . . $268 . . +$12 WSPF KD R/L 2×6 #2&Btr . . . $260. . . +$12 SYP KD R/L 2×4 #2&Btr East Side . . . $390 .…
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Weyerhaeuser Breaks Ground
Site preparation for the new Weyerhaeuser sawmill complex at Dierks (Howard County), AR, is winding down as the project shifts into the next phase of it’s US$190 million construction this week, said Arkansas Business Monday. The new facility will have an annual production capacity of 387 million board feet, 25 per cent more than current…
