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Lumber exports to Asia on pace for sharp decline in 2016

The major wood products exports from the US Northwest (logs) and British Columbia (lumber) to Asia have fallen in value by 18% during the first half of 2016, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly. The biggest decline has been of softwood lumber from BC to China, which is on pace to be down by 50% in 2016 as compared to 2014.

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First Half Lumber Exports Down From Last Year

West coast exports of logs and lumber in the first half of 2015 are lower than they were during the first half of 2014. “Port strikes during the first quarter of 2015 reduced overall log and lumber exports from the west coast, which makes the increases we saw in the second quarter significant,” said Xiaoping Zhou, a research economist with the station who conducted the analysis and compiled the data.