I recently came upon some numbers showing hardwood exports by species and country. They surprised me. For one, I hadn't expected Vietnam and Canada to be the primary consumers of our lumber and logs. Evidently, much furniture manufacturing has moved from China to Vietnam due to lower labor costs. Secondly, I didn't realize that red oak was in demand by the export market. If I can find some numbers that show domestic consumption to put these in context, I'll post them later.
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The darker board represents lumber volume; the lighter board represents log count. I'm not sure the numbers can be compared, but wanted to show relative size of the exports.
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