Japan: Lumber demand rises only slowly

Currency-exchange fluctuations bring opportunities for slight price hikes

Towards the end of the year, the recent sluggish level of business activity on Japanese softwood-lumber markets has shown first signs of a slight improvement. However, European consignors attribute the trend largely more to special effects than to an actual rise in demand. For example, slightly longer delivery times ...

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