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Expo Amazonica 2013 will be held from 10th to 31st August this year in the city of Iquitos and is expected to generate business worth around US$15 million for businesses in the Amazon region of the country. The purpose of the event is to promote private investment and business development in the Amazon region and wood products feature prominently in the expo.
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In 2011, the government of Acre introduced measures to create more opportunities for the joinery sector in the state with the aim of improving the contribution of the sector to the local economy.
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In the first week of June a wide range of stakeholders met to discuss the future of Loreto after reviewing the findings of a study "Sustainable Loreto to 2021" prepared by researcher Marc Dourojeanni.
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Sawnwood exports made a fair contribution to total export earnings and FOB prices have been encouraging prices during the past weeks. Undressed greenheart (Select category) top end FOB prices dipped from US$1,357 to US$ 1,060 per cubic metre. During the period of this report FOB prices for Undressed greenheart (Sound category) earned a top end price of US$806 per cubic metre while Undressed greenheart (Merchantable category) FOB prices moved up from US$551 to US$594 per cubic metre.
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Prices of wood products in the domestic market increased by around 0.3% compared to prices in the previous fortnight. The values in US dollars, as shown in the table below, below fell on average by 4.6% because of the depreciation of the Brazilian currency against the US dollar.
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The revenue generated from forest product exports by companies in Mato Grosso state dropped 16.4% in the first quarter, compared to the same period of last year.
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Gustavo Suarez de Freitas, a forestry expert has reported that most of the deforestation in the country is the result of a deliberate change in land use from forest to agriculture.
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Splitwood (shingles) continues to attract favourable prices on the export market in the region of US$955 per cubic metre FOB with the Caribbean the primary market.
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Furniture production in Brazil increased in March but the
rate of growth was lower than that observed for the same
month in the past two years...
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For almost a month there has been no export of greenheart logs however, purpleheart logs were exported in both Standard and Fair sawmill qualities...
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According to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), the rate of inflation increased in February but at a slower rate than the 0.86% rate recorded in January...
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Jose Dance, general coordinator of the National Forest Inventory Project and Sustainable Forest Management of Peru to the FAO Climate Change office has estimated that annually about 150,000 hectares of forest are destroyed in Peru and that since 1990 a total of 12 million hectares has been deforested...
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A discussion on tracking and monitoring the origin and movement of forest products and the relationship between entrepreneurs and the various Brazilian inspection agencies was recently arranged by the Pará State Federation of Industries (FIEPA)...
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The Disney Company has reportedly purchased US$3.5 billion in carbon credits generated by the Alto Mayo Protected Forest (San Martin), home to 23 species of flora and fauna in danger of extinction...
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The Brazilian Central Bank is forecasting that economic growth in 2013 will reach 4 percent. In December 2012 the economy expanded by 0.26% compared to levels in November and this reflected the overall slowdown in the economy towards the end of the year...
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Erik Fischer, chairman of the Wood and Wood Industry Committee of the exporters association, Adex, has reported that timber exports in 2012 reached US$ 164 million and that this represented a 3% decline on levels one year earlier...
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