Trump to suspend tariff hike on Chinese imports
President Trump said Friday the government had reach a “phase one” trade agreement with China and won’t be moving [...]
October 14, 2019
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Stable softwood lumber production in U.S.; Canadian output drops sharply
U.S. sawmills produced 20.687 billion board ft. (bbf) of softwood lumber in the first seven months of 2019 [...]
October 14, 2019
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Swedish foresters to drop timber prices due to slow sawnwood demand and bark beetle calamity
The Swedish forest owners association Mellanskog has announced a decrease in its timber prices. According to [...]
October 14, 2019
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Schweighofer claims that the high price of logs in Romania makes the company uncompetitive
Today we pay 86 euros (per cubic meter of logs used to make the highest quality timber), while in Austria [...]
October 10, 2019
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Stora Enso to temporarily suspend operations at Uimaharju Sawmill due to oversupply
Finnish-Swedish forest industry giant Stora Enso will suspend operations for more than two months at [...]
October 10, 2019
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US lumber prices back to growth despite low housing starts
North American lumber prices have bounced back but how long will this last? A look at the latest US housing [...]
October 10, 2019
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Vietnam forestry products exports up 18.1% in the first nine months of 2019
Forestry exports were estimated to exceed 7.93 billion USD in the first 9 months of 2019, up 18.1 [...]
October 10, 2019
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Brazil’s forest sector will invest USD 7.84 billion in additional production capacity by 2023
Investments in pulp, soluble cellulose, paper and wood panels - the sector represented by the Brazilian Tree Industry Asociation (Ibá) -are [...]
October 8, 2019
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Czech forest owners face losses of US$ 1.70 billion due to the bark beetle infestation
Czech forest owners face 40 billion crowns ($1.70 billion) of damage this year from an escalating spread of bark [...]
October 8, 2019
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Indonesian timber and furniture industry seeks to take advantage of the US-China trade war
The Indonesian government is mulling over banking on its timber and furniture industry to seize the momentum amid the ongoing [...]
October 8, 2019
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