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EU Aid to Combat Ilegal Timber Deemed “Ineffective”
Read more: 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
Read more: Madison’s Weekly Key Prices AdditionsDue 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 Weekly Key Prices Additions
Read more: Madison’s Weekly Key Prices AdditionsDue 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
Read more: Madison’s Lumber Reporter KEY PRICES Week of 10/23/15A 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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Madison’s Lumber Reporter KEY PRICES Week of 10/23/15
Read more: Madison’s Lumber Reporter KEY PRICES Week of 10/23/15A 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
Read more: Weyerhaeuser Breaks GroundSite 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…
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West Fraser Buys, Canfor Closes
Read more: West Fraser Buys, Canfor ClosesWest Fraser Timber, out of Vancouver, BC, announced Thursday it has entered into an agreement to acquire Alberta’s Manning Diversified Forest Products, which has sawmill operations located in Manning, AB, and related timber harvesting rights, to be completed before the end of October, 2015. West Fraser plans to take the site’s lumber production to 130…
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Japan Housing Starts
Read more: Japan Housing StartsJapan’s Ministry of Land, Infra- structure, Transport and Tourism released Japan’s housing starts for August, which were 80,255 units (up 8.8 per cent from the same month in the previous year), said Japan Lumber Journal Thursday. Owner-occupied and rental houses increased for four consecutive months, and built-for-sale houses turned to an increase from a decrease…
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Provinces Urge Canadian Government to Negotiate SLA
Read more: Provinces Urge Canadian Government to Negotiate SLACabinet ministers in both Nova Scotia and New Brunswick are expressing concern that Canada and the United States haven’t started renegotiating the softwood lumber trade agreement, according to Canadian Press Wednesday. As well, British Columbia Premier Christy Clark has called for Canadian officials to get to the negotiating table, said Globe and Mail October 11.…
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Provinces Urge Canadian Government to Negotiate SLA
Read more: Provinces Urge Canadian Government to Negotiate SLACabinet ministers in both Nova Scotia and New Brunswick are expressing concern that Canada and the United States haven’t started renegotiating the softwood lumber trade agreement, according to Canadian Press Wednesday. As well, British Columbia Premier Christy Clark has called for Canadian officials to get to the negotiating table, said Globe and Mail October 11.…
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US Paper Duty and Tariff Against Canada
Read more: US Paper Duty and Tariff Against CanadaCanadian paper mills that produce glossy paper products will continue to pay cost-ly duties levelled against them last summer by the US Department of Commerce, reported CTV News Wednesday. In a decision released Wednesday, the department said it has determined that US imports of supercalendered paper from Canada have received countervailable subsidies ranging from 17.87…
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US Housing and Real Estate Situation
Read more: US Housing and Real Estate SituationBy: Stephen Kim, Barclays’ US building products and home-building-equity analyst via Business Insider “At this point, it has become hard to overlook housing’s dismally slow pace of recovery. Sure, home prices are back to historic highs and housing-market activity continues to pick up, but many important aspects of the housing market are depressed. The housing…
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Home Building and Selling 2015, USA
Read more: Home Building and Selling 2015, USA“In hot real estate markets in the US, what’s happening is rental housing is being built to profit from rising rents and luxury housing is being built to meet the demand from wealthy overseas buyers,’ warns Adam Taggart in Market Oracle October 10. Elsewhere, in a chilling 88-page industry note, Barclays analyst Stephen Kim warns…
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Question about Forestry Economics from Lumber Consumer:
Read more: Question about Forestry Economics from Lumber Consumer:that’s a good question! somebody in one of my LinkedIn groups asked: — Board Member at Eco Building Products Quantifying the 2015 NA Softwood Lumber Market in terms of USD “I have seen 2015 consumption forecasts at 54.1 billion BF but have not seen this put in USD terms. Suggestions greatly appreciated.” Madison’s Answer: Most…
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Question about Forestry Economics from Lumber Consumer:
Read more: Question about Forestry Economics from Lumber Consumer:that’s a good question! somebody in one of my LinkedIn groups asked: — Board Member at Eco Building Products Quantifying the 2015 NA Softwood Lumber Market in terms of USD “I have seen 2015 consumption forecasts at 54.1 billion BF but have not seen this put in USD terms. Suggestions greatly appreciated.” Madison’s Answer: Most…
