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1981 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
The Imported Timber Trade
Authors : Jack H. Leigh, F.I.W.Sc., Alan G. Randall
Published in: Timber Trade Practice
Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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The timber trade must surely be one of the most intricate of trades, dealing as it does with hundreds of species of timber, each of which can be supplied in three variable dimensions of thickness, width and length. Timber is not a homogeneous product like woodpulp or steel, and it requires an elaborate system of shippers, agents, importers, merchants and brokers to arrange its transport and distribution.