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Authors: ​Jean M. Daniels and John Perez-Garcia ​Executive SummaryLumber manufacturing remains an economically important industry in the State of Washington. The sector has added value to Washington’s timberlands and continues to generate the majority of regional timber demand. Lumber production contributes to rural economic development and employment. Lumber manufacturing has remained particularly viable in western Washington, […]

Authors: ​Joseph A. Roos, Valerie Barber, Daisuke Sasatani and Ivan Eastin ​Executive SummaryThe Japanese glulam beam market has been growing steadily since the early 1990’s. From 1993 to 2007, total glulam beam usage increased from 199,300 cubic meters to 1,814,100 cubic meters. Japanese glulam beam supply comes from both domestic production and imports.  In 2007, 65% […]

Authors: ​Ivan Eastin and Craig Larsen Executive SummaryFor fifteen years between 1989 and 2004, US exports of softwood lumber were mired in decline. During this period, the volume of US softwood lumber exports plunged from approximately 8 million m 3 to less than 2 million m 3 . This trend was a reflection of the relatively […]

Authors: ​Jeff Cao, Rose Braden, Ivan Eastin and Jeff Morrell Executive SummaryAs China’s economy has grown and personal income has risen over the past decade, spending on landscaping and public works projects has increased dramatically, and with it China’s demand for treated softwood lumber. New luxury residential developments commonly include traditional Chinese landscape design, which includes […]

Author: ​Jun Fukuda ​AbstractThe trade of softwood lumber between the United States and Canada is one of the major forest products trade flows in the world. Since 1996, exports from the four major softwood lumber producing provinces in Canada (British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, and Quebec) into the US have been regulated by the voluntary export restraint […]

Authors: ​Ivan L. Eastin, Steven R. Shook and Wendy Sammarco Executive SummaryCurrently, less than one percent of the private and industrial timberlands in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) are managed for hardwood production. In order to provide an incentive to manage the hardwood resource actively, hardwood stumpage prices must be consistently competitive with conifer stumpage prices, although […]

Authors: Ivan L. Eastin, Chris Lane, Tom Waggener, Roger Fight and Jamie Barbour ​Executive SummaryThe purpose of this project was to assess market opportunities for second-growth clearwood lumber by identifying industry segments that currently utilize clearwood lumber and determining whether alternative markets will continue to exist for clearwood lumber produced from intensively-managed forests in the Pacific […]

Authors: Darius M. Adams, Bruce A. McCarl, and Lalehrokh Homayounfarrokh ​Executive SummaryThis paper employs graphical analysis, simple statics and an econometric model to examine the impacts of exchange rate on consumption, production, prices and bilateral trade flows I the Canadian—U.S. lumber market.  Based on annual data for the 1950-1983 period, the econometric model is comprised […]