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Top 5: Market Points from IndustryEdge

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  • 698,099 m3 – Imports of Dressed Sawn Softwood (most of which is structural grades) for the year-ended June were 38% higher than a year earlier
  • 16,285 bdmt – Softwood chip exports in June 2018 amounted to little more than a couple of holds on a single vessel. The supply was delivered to Japan
  • 19,709 – Australia’s dwelling approvals continued to defy orthodox thinking in June 2018, remaining well ahead of expected declines and just 0.8% lower than June 2017
  • 22.1% – proportion of Australia’s Softwood Log exports in June 2018 that were smaller than 15cm at the small-end
  • Up 31.3% – Imports of all Sawn Softwood to Queensland rose to 240,394 m3

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