The antidumping debate over hardwood plywood imported from China led to a number of widely read blogs on WoodworkingNetwork.com. Here is a list of other highly viewed blogs in 2013.
Spencer Cabinetry, my company, is just a small kitchen cabinet manufacturer in Washington State. Who would have thought we would be sucked up by the typhoon that is national politics. I have now seen it first hand and it is truly ugly.
When the U.S. Department of Commerce determined that China's plywood manufacturers had sold at predatory pricing levels - below the cost of production - U.S. plywood makers cheered. But not the plywood buyers.
As the federal government continues its investigation of the Chinese hardwood plywood market, The American Alliance for Hardwood Plywood (AAHP) takes strong exception to a recent desperate statement made by the Hardwood Plywood Veneer Association.
The Coalition for Fair Trade of Hardwood Plywood (CFTHP) said it wants to make sure that importers of Chinese hardwood and decorative plywood are making cash deposits as required for these products to enter the United States.
Home Depot, selling banned wood finishes, was penalized $8 million by Southern California regulators. That and stories of kitchen cabinetry and countertops were the week's most viewed wood industry reports. Here are the top stories from WoodworkingNetwork.com
The American Alliance for Hardwood Plywood (AAHP) today applauded the Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturers Association's (KCMA) formal opposition to a petition filed with the International Trade Commission by some of the world's largest producers of hardwood plywood.
MANILA, PHILIPPINES -- The Philippine Bureau of Customs (BoC) announced it will step up efforts to halt illegal imports of wood, especially shipments arriving from China.