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Forisk Blog: December 2018

Tariffs and Trade: New Path Forward in the New Year?

Posted on December 27, 2018 by Brooks Mendell | no comments in Forest Finance & Economics, Timber Market Analysis

On September 24, 2018, China implemented additional tariffs on over 5,000 U.S. products worth $60 billion. The levies cover certain logs and chips at either a 5% or 10% rate. These tariffs were in retaliation to the 10% duty placed more…

Tags export markets, timber market analysis, wood demand

Four Lessons from Wood Pallets on Strategy and Competition

Posted on December 20, 2018 by Brooks Mendell | no comments in Forest Finance & Economics, Forest Operations, Forest Strategy, Softwood Lumber, Wood Demand & Procurement

When Mr. Market speaks, it’s not personal. Your business and investments either generate cash and earn profits, or they don’t. In timber and the forest products industry, the efficiency of how this message gets delivered varies up and down the more…

Reinvention and Competition: Wood Pallets and the Forest Industry, Part III

Posted on December 11, 2018 by Brooks Mendell | comment (1) in Forest Operations, Forest Strategy

In the 1991 movie City Slickers, the crusty trail boss Curly, played by Jack Palance, gives life advice to Mitch, played by Billy Crystal: Curly: Do you know what the secret of life is? Mitch: No, what? Curly: [holds up more…

Reinvention and Competition: Wood Pallets and the Forest Industry, Part II

Posted on December 6, 2018 by Brooks Mendell | comment (1) in Forest Finance & Economics

My first exposure to pallet manufacturing came while working as a harvest manager and log buyer for a pine sawmill in Barnesville, Georgia in the mid-1990s. While procuring pine logs for our mill, I often sold hardwood pallet logs to more…

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