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The Chinese government threatened on Friday 3rd of August 2018 to put tariffs on 60 billion USD of imports from the US if the Trump administration imposes its own new levies on Chinese goods. Check in this article the full list of wood products under threat from tariffs...... [more...]
At the beginning of the summer of 2018, the French softwood market is characterized by two very different situations. On the one hand, the sawnwood market confirms its favourable position, which was observed in the last quarter of 2017. On the other hand, the roundwood market gets stagnant, resulting in lower demand and lower log prices in the French east... [more...]
The 2018 edition of the Carrefour International du Bois (CIB) held in Nantes from the 30th of May until the 1st of June gathered around 570 exhibitors and 10,000 visitors. Both exhibitors and visitors were satisfied with both the fair and the supporting program. The exhibitors came mainly from France and Belgium as well as a smaller number from other European countries. North America was sparsely represented... [more...]
Fordaq SA announced today that it’s revolutionary mobile application to do lumber tallies taking a picture from a phone or tablet is now integrated with the Agility ERP of DMSi. All Agility clients of DMSI will now have the opportunity to easily deploy the Tally Express application in their operations... [more...]
Oak has become priceless in France! This statement may seem exaggerated but the examination of the auction results for the first five months of 2018 leaves no doubts about the current state of the oak market in France. Year-on-year and on average (see table 1), the price increase of logs reached 25%, exceeding 50% over two years... [more...]
During the Montreal Wood Convention, which was held between 20-22 March 2018, there have been a lot of discussions on the wood industry opportunities worldwide. Particularly, one of the talks referred to Canada’s opportunities on the Chinese wood products market... [more...]
On April 18, 2018, the CSIL World Furniture Outlook seminar took place at the Salone del Mobile furniture fair in Milan. During this meeting eight qualified speakers from different countries provided market insights to an audience. One of the speakers represented China. Linda Tu, Vice Secretary General of CNFA (China National Furniture Association) provided figures on the Chinese furniture industry... [more...]
World fumiture production is worth about US$ 440 billion (data are in current US$). About one third of the value is exported, while two thirds...... [more...]
The sixth annual Montreal Wood Convention took place at the Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth in downtown Montreal on the 21st of March 2018 and it presented some of the outlooks for the Canadian wood industry sector. Among the factors that influence the industry, the labor shortage came to be the biggest concern for lumber yards nowadays... [more...]
Many European flooring producers were present at this year's 20th Anniversary of the DOMOTEX asia/CHINAFLOOR, a sign that the Chinese and Asia-Pacific market is becoming more important. As the German leading wooden flooring brand, Haro, decided not to be present at this year's Domotex in Hannover, Fordaq was curious why and approached Klaus Trautner, Head Marketing and Product Management at Haro, for an interview.... [more...]
