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Top 5: Market Points from IndustryEdge

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  1. -3.4% – dwelling approvals in New South Wales totalled 70,169 over the year-ended July 2018, but for July itself were 20.1% lower than in July 2017
  2. $137.3 million – the value of Australia’s imports of ‘Posts & Beams’ over the year-ended July 2018 was 31.5% higher than the prior year
  3. 11,920,676 – the number of items of wooden furniture  imported to Australia over the year-ended July
  4. HARDWOOD – the value of hardwood chip exports in July 2018 was AUD114.7 million and more than AUD1.193 billion for the year-ended July, measured on a free-on-board basis
  5. AUD332.68/m3 – the free-on-board price of imported particleboard  in July 2018 was 24.5% lower than a year earlier – despite the depreciation of the Australian dollar