Authors: Peter Cardellichio, Yeo Youn, Darius Adams, Rin Won Joo & John Chmelik Executive SummaryCINTRAFOR is engaged in the Pacific Rim Assessment (PRA), an ongoing analysis of forest products markets in the Pacific Rim. The primary objective of this research is to assess the future outlook for forest products production, consumption, trade, and prices in the […]
Author: Ivan Eastin Executive SummaryThe vast majority of tropical hardwood timber reserves are located in the developing regions of Southeast Asia, West Africa and South America. Many of the countries in these regions, faced with a shortage of foreign exchange and a lack of capital for developing manufacturing facilities, regard their tropical forest reserves as a […]
Author: Thomas R. Waggener SummaryForestry and forest products in the People’s Republic of China is a large and complex subject – just as China itself is large. The contemporary ties between the forestry and forest products community in China and the College of Forest Resources at the University of Washington formally began in 1980 with the […]
Authors: Paul Sommers and Timothy Leinbach Executive SummaryThe wood products industry in Washington has exhibited little growth in real value of output in the last decade, and increases in employment are small as new technologies boost worker productivity. Meanwhile, firms face competitive challenges from foreign producers as well as competitors in other regions of the United […]
Authors: Donald F. Flora and Wendy J. McGinnis AbstractCongress is considering two legislative changes affecting softwood log exports from the West. One would drop the ban on exports from Federal lands. The other would permit States to embargo exports of logs from State-owned lands.Lifting the ban on federal log exports would increase exports about ten percent, […]
Authors: Darius M. Adams and Richard W. Haynes AbstractOver the next two decades, the Douglas4ir region faces an array of changes in timber supply structure that will markedly effect the future development potential of its forest products economy. In. the private sector, supplies from industrial and non-industrial lands will follow divergent paths. Industrial timber inventory, which […]
Authors: Peter Cardellichio, Clark Binkley and Vadim Zausaev Executive SummaryInternational trade in sawlogs and veneer logs is concentrated in the Pacific Rim. According to world forestry statistics (Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, 1989), Japan, the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, and South Korea accounted for 72% of the world imports of sawlogs and […]
