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Anti-Dumping Duty Rates announced — Softwood Lumber
Anti-Dumping Duty Rates announced — Softwood Lumber Canfor 7.72 percent Resolute 4.59 percent Tolko 7.53 percent West Fraser 6.76 percent All others (including Irving) 6.87 percent Lumber produced in NS, PEI, and NL, from timber harvested in those provinces, and so certified by the Atlantic Lumber Bureau, will be excluded from both AD and CVD.…
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US Lumber Production Increases in March, Up Slightly in 1Q 2017: WWPA
US lumber production increased 10.7 per cent in March compared to the month prior but declined 0.5 per cent from March 2016, according to statistics from the Western Wood Products Association’s Lumber Track. Production totaled 2.941 billion board feet (BBF) in March. Production in the West jumped 14.9 per cent over February, while output in…
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Canada and US Softwood Lumber Update: 1Q ‘17
New data this week out of Statistics Canada, on Canadian softwood lumber production and sawmill sales, as well as from the US Department of Commerce, on US coniferous wood imports and exports, give an excellent update to the economic state of the North American forest products industry for 1Q 2017. According to figures Wednesday from…
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Canada’s Lumber Market Forecast: Conference Board
Following its strongest showing in three years, production growth in Canada’s wood products industry is expected to moderate significantly in 2017 due to the incoming US trade restrictions on Canadian softwood lumber, according to The Conference Board of Canada’s Canadian Industrial Outlook: Canada’s Wood Products Manufacturing Industry, released Friday. Canada’s wood products manufacturers will see…
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Canada Wholesale Trade, Lumber Exports: March 2017
Canada’s merchandise trade balance with the world narrowed to a $370 million deficit in April, from a revised $936 million deficit in March, said Statistics Canada Friday. Exports rose 1.8 per cent to $47.7 billion, led by higher exports of passenger cars and light trucks. Imports were up 0.6 per cent to $48.1 billion, on…
