Consolidated Nordic Log Price Outlook – November 2017
Thank you for participating in FBA’s recent log price outlook. You can find the final report below. This outlook has a few additional features: Sentiments on future log volumes are presented and we could manage to combine the results with a similar independent outlook that was carried out in the New Zealand at the same […]
Commerce Slaps 111 Percent Duty On Chinese Wood Imports
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