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Turmoil in the Middle East creates a lumber buying buffet for China
Very informative background information on how the turmoil in Egypt and Syria (and other ME destinations) affects lumber market in ME. There is a huge amount of lumber that used to go to Egypt that is redistributed to the ME, but turmoil there completely messed up that market.

Now China is becoming a big market that is replacing ME destinations. War has lots of unintended consequences. In this case, for Russia, Canada, and the US.
Posted by: Alaska Paul 2013-09-25
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=376482