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BC Softwood Lumber Export, Canada – US Sawmill Capacity
Read more: BC Softwood Lumber Export, Canada – US Sawmill CapacityBC export of forest products by value are up 0.4 per cent for 2017 year-to-date September compared to the same period in 2016 ($10.49 billion vs. $10.45), said the Competitiveness and Innovation Branch of the British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations & Rural Development Monday. Exports of softwood lumber by value is…
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US Construction Job Openings: September 2017
Read more: US Construction Job Openings: September 2017The open position rate (job openings as a per cent of total employment) for September softened to 2.8 per cent. On a smoothed twelve-month moving average basis, the open position rate for the construction sector held steady at 2.6 per cent, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey…
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US Dept of Commerce Final Determination Softwood Lumber Duty Published Tomorrow — Nov 8, 2017
Read more: US Dept of Commerce Final Determination Softwood Lumber Duty Published Tomorrow — Nov 8, 2017Published on today’s edition (11/07) of the Federal Register is a notice that the United States Department Of Commerce’s Final Softwood Lumber Anti-Dumping / Countervailing Duty Determination is expected to be published tomorrow – November 8, 2017.
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US Housing Market Update: Aug and Sept 2017
Read more: US Housing Market Update: Aug and Sept 2017The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller US National Home Price Index, reported Tuesday, had a 6.1 per cent annual gain in August, up from 5.9 per cent in the previous month. The 10-City Composite annual increase came in at 5.3 per cent, up from 5.2 per cent the previous month. The 20-City Composite posted a 5.9 per…
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North America Forest Products Movement Update: August 2017
Read more: North America Forest Products Movement Update: August 2017The latest data, some released just Wednesday by Statistics Canada, show a glowing picture of improving conditions for North America’s forest products industry. Most of the data encompasses January to August 2017, providing solid information on the economic state of Canadian and US log and lumber products and their movement so far this year. Headline…
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US Commerce Dept Final Duty Determination: Softwood Lumber
Read more: US Commerce Dept Final Duty Determination: Softwood LumberThe US Commerce Department issued Thursday it’s Final Determination of both Countervailing and Anti-Dumping duties on Canadian softwood lumber imports to the US. The North American forest products industry now waits for the last of these bureaucratic announcements, which were triggered in November 2016 when the US first launched the softwood lumber trade claim. In…
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US Commerce Dept Final Determination: Softwood Lumber Duties, Nov 2017
Read more: US Commerce Dept Final Determination: Softwood Lumber Duties, Nov 2017https://www.commerce.gov/…/softwood_lumber_canada_ad_cvd_fi… The next step is the International Trade Commission (ITC) Final Determination in later December. Some of the duty rates may be adjusted. Canadian operators will be required to pay duties on softwood lumber shipments to the US at the beginning of January 2018. This announcement also says that ‘critical circumstances’ exist on the anti-dumping…
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Fifth Annual Bioenergy Day
Read more: Fifth Annual Bioenergy DayThe fifth annual North America bioenergy day this year had record participation. Sixty organizations participated in 50 events across Canada and the United States to recognize the benefits of heat, power, and fuels from biomass. In honour of the Fifth Annual Bioenergy Day, Fink Machine held an Open House October 18 in Enderby, BC, to…
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Japan Building Projection: Fiscal Year 2017
Read more: Japan Building Projection: Fiscal Year 2017On July 26, Japan’s Research Institute of Construction and Economy and the Economic Research Association released “Outlook of Construction Investment According to Construction Economy Model”, said Japan Lumber Journal October 15. In that report, the organizations predict Japan housing starts in fiscal 2017 (from April 2017 to March 2018) to decrease 1.3 per cent compared…
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North America Wildfire Damage Update: October 2017
Read more: North America Wildfire Damage Update: October 2017British Columbia recorded its worst-ever fire season this year, said CBC Monday. Wildfires that began in early April scorched just over 12,000 square kilometres of timber, bush, and grassland and at their height forced 45,000 people from their homes. Climate change didn’t directly cause major wildfires in Alberta and British Columbia this year but it…
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US New Home Sales: September 2017
Read more: US New Home Sales: September 2017Contracts for new US home sales expanded by 18.9 per cent in September to a 667,000 seasonally adjusted annual rate, according to estimates from the joint data release of HUD and the Census Bureau Wednesday. The solid reading in September returns new home sales to the positive growth trend it has been on for several…
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Madison’s Softwood Heating Pellet Report: September 2017
Read more: Madison’s Softwood Heating Pellet Report: September 2017Last week Madison’s Lumber Reporter subscribers have received an email with the special one-year anniversary issue of the wildly-popular monthly North America residential heating softwood pellet price report. We will continue to make the exciting changes we have started, so next month’s issue — for October 2017 — will be still expanded and improved. Don’t…
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Roseburg Sells, Solifor Buys…
Read more: Roseburg Sells, Solifor Buys…Roseburg Resources, out of Sprinfield, OR, is selling 170,000 acres of timberland in Siskiyou and Shasta counties an Australia management firm, according to the Mail Tribune Thursday. Roseburg has operations in three Northwest states, including a medium density fiberboard plant in Medford, and four Southeast states. The buyer is New Forests, a US$3 billion firm…
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Japan Housing Starts: August 2017
Read more: Japan Housing Starts: August 2017According to Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Japan housing starts for August were 80,562 units (down 2 per cent from the same month in the previous year), falling below the previous year’s results for two consecutive months, said Japan Lumber Journal Monday. Japan Housing Starts The seasonally-adjusted annual rate for housing starts…
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US Wildfires Destroyed over 7,000 Homes
Read more: US Wildfires Destroyed over 7,000 HomesThe latest word out of Madison’s contacts close to the Softwood Lumber negotiations Tuesday is that — in advance of the next looming ‘gap period’ this time on the anti-dumping duty — there will be some kind of announcement out of US Commerce dept regarding: ” sources are conveying that the AD/CVD aligned Final Determination…
