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Monthly lumber production by sawmills declined by 9.1% to 4,576.2 thousand cubic metres in March.
Sawmills shipped 4,725.8 thousand cubic metres of lumber in March, a decrease of 2.9% from February. Compared with the same month last year, lumber shipments dropped 28.2%.
Between February and March, stocks edged up down 0.5% to 8,455.5 thousand cubic metres.
Available on CANSIM: table 303-0009.
Definitions, data sources and methods: survey number 2134.
The March 2008 issue of Sawmills, Vol. 62, no. 3 (35-003-XWE, free) is now available from the Publications module of our website.
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