The following was supplied by Russ Taylor, President of Vancouver based Wood Markets International     With the expiry of the U.S.-Canada Softwood Lumber Agreement, the outcome of what is…

Although imports have come off the incredible peaks reached in mid-2016, there have been few more impressive wood product import grades than the higher-value added products contained with…

Australia’s imports of sawn softwood continued to decline over the course of 2016, falling 15.1% compared with 2015 and totaling 590,782 m3. After peaking in March 2016, year-end imports ha…

Continuing one of the heftiest and longest running sales growth paths, domestically produced sawn softwood sales punched-out another record in the year-ended December 2016, with sales to…

Despite falling 0.9% from November, investor’s share of Australia’s housing loans in December 2016 still accounted for 48.7% of the total value al housing loans. The almost AUD13.2 billion…

Approvals of new dwellings seem to have come off the boil in recent months, with year-end data showing that 228,308 separate dwellings were approved in 2016, down 2.8% on 2015. But perhaps mos…

Australia’s total log exports totaled 3.918 million m3 for the year-ended November 2016, recording a 26.1% increase on the prior year. Exports for both coniferous (softwood) and broadleav…