MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
MONDAY. DECEMBER 3. 1962
Northwest Lumber
Industry Moving
To World Ma rkets
SmIUi
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune Washington
Correspondent
Washington (Special) - The
fight the Northwest lumber
Industry has launched to get
back into the
Puerto Rican
market, now
monopoli zed
by Canada, is
just the start
of a drive to
expand North
west lumber
imports
throu ghoul
the world.
Plans are in the works for
two trade missions of lumber
men, with the blessing of the
Kennedy administration, to
hit the growing lumber mar
kets of Europe and Asia dur
ing the coming year.
"These will be do-it-yourself
trade missions, paid for
by the industry," explained
Ed Thompson, Washington
representative of West Coast
Lumbermen's association, the
organization which is sponsor
ing the trade missions.
The first will go to Europe
In the spring, the second to
the Far East in the fall. The
Department of Commerce is
working with the industry,
Thompson said, but because
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the trips will be privately fi
nanced thu lumbermen will be
allowed to sell lumber and not
just create good will.
Among the five lumbermen
planning to take the European
trip is William H. Schlauch,
manager of Georgia-Pacific's
export department at Port
land, a major American lum
ber exporting firm which last
year sold about 100 million
board feet of lumber in for
eign markets -or nearly a
third of the total American
lumber exports. - , ' .
"Our exports have grown
so much that we are purchas
ing more and more lumber
from outside mills," said
Schlauch. He said Georgia-Pacific
buys from Weyerhaeuser,
Simpson, as well as. smaller
companies, to meet the de
mand of foreign purchasers,
chiefly for Douglas fir, but
also hemlock, redwood and an
increasing quantity of ply
wood. British Columbia mills,
which now dominate the east
ern markets of the. United
States, also export more lum
ber to the rest of the world
than do American producers
(854 million board feet to 333
million board feet last year):
but even Canada can't meet
the demand for lumber, and
so American companies share
in the market despite a slight
ly higher cost.
American lumber 'goes into
everything from Venetian
blinds made in Italy to the
2x3 roofing used in Tahiti's
grass shacks, said Schlauch.
Japan is the largest customer,
Australia is- second, Korea
third (foreign aid purchases
swell Korean buying), Britain
is next.'
Schlauch is very optimistic
about expanding trade with
the common market countries
of western Europe. He point
ed out that these industrial
countries are expanding their
productivity, raising the
standard of living of their peo
ple, which will result in more
new housing construction to
cut into the huge housing
shortage which has existed
ever since World War II lev
e 1 e d countless residential
areas of Europe.
"All we ship to Europe is
clears (lumber without any
knots) in Douglas fir, hemlock
and pitch pine," he noted.
The commons (rougher
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grades of lumber used for con
struction) come from Sweden,
Finland and Russia chiefly,
although Canada is selling
some commons in Europe.
The new trade bill ought to
help expand American lum
ber sales in the common mar
ket countries, he speculated,
citing -a 10 per cent duty
which Britain now imposes on
American plywood (but none
on Canadian plywood) as an
example of a tariff that
should be dropped under the
lowered tariff barriers envi
sioned by the Kennedy admin
istration. Asked to take a long look
into the future for lumber ex
ports, Schlauch, said increas
ing industrialization of other
countries and the population
growth were reasons to be op
timistic that Northwest lum
ber will be in growing de
mand. "I believe there could even
be a shortage of lumber some
day," he added.
Cub Scout Pack IS
About 100 parents and
friends of Cub Scout Pack 15,
sponsored by the Phoenix
First Presbyterian church, at
tended the annual awards
meeting last week.
Ben Roesser, cub master,
made the presentation of
awards.
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ine of the busiest persons in the valley during the week end.
Here he checks on flooding conditions via short wave radio.
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