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BC Softwood Lumber Exports: October 2017
Softwood lumber exports by value from British Columbia are up 0.2 per cent for 2017 year- to-date October compared to the same period in 2016 ($11.64 billion vs. $11.62), said the Log Export and Economic Analysis Branch of the BC Ministry of Forests, Lands, and Natural Resource Operations December 13. Lumber value is down -6…
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Back to Full Operation for North American Forest Products Industry
Kiln-Dried Fir Softwood Lumber Sales Momentum Loss: December 2017 As in green fir, consistent and strong demand for Kiln-Dried Douglas-fir softwood lumber continued to come out of California – particularly the Southern part of the state – but overall it wasn’t enough to keep producers from lowering their asking prices. Players in the US intimated…
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Seasonal Holiday Break for North American Forest Industry
And what a year it has been, holey moley. Sawmills across Canada and the US will hardly get a chance to assess this wild year as year- end inventory in their yards is calculated before the New Year 2018, with it’s punishing softwood lumber duty, comes on. It is usual for the entire province of…
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Canada and US Softwood Lumber Production, Sawmill Capacity: Sept 2017
US sawmills produced 25.509 billion board ft. (bbf) of softwood lumber in the first nine months of 2017, another 3.2 per cent increase over last month, from 24.730 bbf in the previous year, according to the Western Wood Products Association’s latest Lumber Track report Monday. For their part, sawmills in Canada produced 21.374 bbf of…
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One More Week Before Traditional Forestry Holiday Break
But expect the lumber business to come back with a bang right at the beginning of 2018, just as it was in January this year. The US International Trade Commission December 7 released a pre-announcement of it’s looming Final Determination on Canadian imports of manufactured softwood lumber products to the USA. This timing means that…
