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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: ​J. Cameron Crump, Dorothy Paun and Paul M. Boardman ​Executive SummaryOver 20% of the world’s population, or 1.2 billion people, live in China, and more than 20% of the urban workforce is employed by foreign and private firms. Disposable income is growing, 10% annually since 1991, making imported products more accessible. China continues its transformation […]

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 Eastin and Rose Braden Executive Summary The export segment of Alaska’s forest products industry is characterized by its supply of high-quality Sitka spruce, western hemlock, western red cedar, and Alaska (yellow) cedar, all highly valued in domestic and export markets. The industry, however, is also characterized by its limited in-state and out-of-state transportation infrastructure, […]

Executive SummaryMaterial substitution in the residential construction industry is driven by a variety of factors including product availability, product performance, price, price stability, and in-place costs.  As competition between softwood lumber and substitute products increases, managers need to understand end-users’ changing perceptions of softwood lumber and the competitive position of softwood lumber vis a vis […]

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: ​Guy Robertson and Thomas R. Waggener ​Executive SummaryJapan has long been Asia’s largest importer of softwood sawlogs and lumber and is the major destination for U.S- Pacific Northwest wood product exports. In the period lasting from 1980 to 1993, 3apan imported an annual average of 15.2 million CUM of softwood sawlogs and 5.4 million CUM […]

Author: ​John Perez-Garcia ​Executive SummaryThe reduction in timber supply in the U.S. Pacific Northwest region to protect the northern spotted owl is just one of a number of similar, ongoing adjustments in timber supply globally. The rapid rise in wood product prices experienced within the last 12 months — an increase of 100 percent–is suggestive of […]

G. F. Schreuder, T. R. Waggener and M. P. Clasby. IntroductionThis study was done to explore the possibility of exporting charcoal from the Seward, Alaska area.  In investigating any product’s market feasibility, three general cost areas are examined: Production, Transportation, Marketing and Selling.  While all three areas are of importance, the purpose of this marketing […]