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Article: FAS and U.S. industry team up to promote value-added wood products. (Foreign Agricultural Service)
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- AgExporter
- Article date:
- February 1, 1996
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1996 U.S. Department of Agriculture. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Over the past five years, U.S. exports of value-added wood products rose 15 percent to $4.4 billion, including some significant gains in the Caribbean, Europe and the Far East.
From 1991 to 1995, sales of U.S. value-added wood products(1):
* Rose 36 percent to $1.1 billion in Japan.
* Increased more than sevenfold to $13 million in Indonesia.
* Climbed 48 percent to $219 million in the Caribbean.
* Grew by 27 and 39 percent for hardwood lumber and veneer, respectively, to $1.2 billion in the European Union.
* Went up 79 percent to $151 million in Korea.