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Prices of wooden packaging are declining. The price index published by the German association for wood packaging, palettes and export packaging (HPE) shows a decrease for solid timber, OSB and plywood in the second quarter, both compared to the same quarter of last year and compared to the first quarter of 2008... |
| 22/07/2008 - 17:16 |
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Traders labeled the framing lumber market as "dull" or "lackluster," even as many prices rose, largely in response to seasonal gains in consumption and constrained output at the mills... |
| 21/07/2008 - 11:32 |
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The volume of trade continued to decline. Demand from Asia and Europe was very low and producers in West and Central Africa were slowing production to even lower levels than they had previously considered necessary... |
| 17/07/2008 - 12:09 |
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A mildly faster pace of sales in dry framing contrasted with sagging demand and prices in green Douglas Fir. Summer shutdowns and curtailments that kept supplies in check were keys to price gains in dry species... |
| 14/07/2008 - 07:12 |
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Log imports through Manzhouli Port fell 32% during January to May 2008, mainly as a result of the rise in Russia’s export tariff on logs. Russia hiked its log export tariffs from 6.5% to 20% in July 2007 for the first time and to 25% on 1 April 2008... |
| 10/07/2008 - 10:15 |
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The Japan Lumber Reports (JLR) reported on log and lumber imports for the first quarter of 2008, noting that log import volumes from Russia, North America and South Asian countries all declined. Russia had the most notable drop of 66% from the same period in 2007, which resulted from the spike in log export tariffs imposed by the Russian government... |
| 09/07/2008 - 09:03 |
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Guyana’s exports of mouldings for the fortnight have improved over the previous month’s total, mainly due to the large export volumes of purpleheart mouldings to Barbados... |
| 08/07/2008 - 08:30 |
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In May 2008, the value of exports of general wood products (except pulp and paper) fell 17.6% compared to the same period in 2007, from USD369.8 million to USD304.6 million... |
| 05/07/2008 - 08:30 |
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According to Só Notícias, exports from Alta Floresta companies decreased in the first five months of 2008. Total exports worth USD6.2 million were 25% lower than observed in the same period of 2007, when they were valued at USD8.4 million. The value of exports fell since their highest level in January 2008, when exports totaled USD1.6 million. In May, however, exports were only worth USD757,000... |
| 04/07/2008 - 16:23 |
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Framing lumber trading was mixed, with relatively low expectations and quiet sales sometimes interrupted by buying spurts. Sales exceeded many traders' expectations in Southern Pine, while a late-week surge in orders allowed Western S-P-F producers to nudge up quotes on the bellwether #2&Btr 2x4... |
| 04/07/2008 - 15:30 |
