British Columbia Cuts Its Stumpage Forecast on Duties and Costs

British Columbia has cut what it expects to collect for each cubic metre of Crown timber by 11 per cent, blaming rising operating costs and American duties on softwood lumber. That is according to Josie Osborne, the province’s Minister of Finance, whose First Quarterly Report on Monday forecasts an average stumpage rate of C$13.55, down […] The post British Columbia Cuts Its Stumpage Forecast on Duties and Costs appeared first on Wood Central.