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Japan Lumber and Logs: October 2015, Housing Starts
According to Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries “Informa- tion on the Exports and Imports of Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Products” report, Japan’s export of agricultural, forestry, and fishery products amounted to 66.07 billion yen in October 2015, an increase of 17.5 per cent from the same month of the previous year, said the…
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Japan Housing Starts: September 2015
Total housing starts in Japan were 77,872 in September, a 2.6 per cent increase over the same month last year according to Japan Lumber Reports Friday. Total starts for the first nine months of 2015 were 676,997 units, up 2.8 per cent from the same time last year. Housing Starts, Japan On a seasonally adjusted…
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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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Japan Housing Starts
Japan’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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Japan Main Foreign Timber Import: First Half 2015
The amount of foreign logs received in Japan during the first half of 2015 was 1.71 million cubic metres (a 27.1 per cent decrease compared to the same period last year), said the Japan Lumber Journal Tuesday. The amount of lumber products received was 3.05 million cubic metres (a 11.6 per cent drop). The total…
