China Feeds U.S. Demand for Wood As Forests Suffer
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By Evan Osnos, Chicago Tribune  Dec. 18--ZHANGJIAGANG, China -- Night and day, the timber ships reach this Yangtze River port, one of the world's busiest clearinghouses for logs from every corner of the globe: Southeast Asia, the Amazon, Russia, the Congo.
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China&#39;s thirst for oil has brought it to the doorstep of the United States. Chinese energy companies are on the verge of striking ambitious deals in Canada in efforts
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China's voracious demand for steel has  tempered of late, stoking fears of industry oversupply and  falling prices as China becomes a net exporter of steel, its  domestic demand slows down and global steelmaking capacity  rises, the Wall Street Journal said on Thursday.
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The wood furniture maker uses a niche strategy to work around industry problems.
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Upset over a soaring trade deficit with China, U.S. manufacturers pressed the Bush administration on Monday to take a hard line with the Chinese on currency and other trade issues.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - A World Trade Organization ruling gives Canada needed clout to recover more than $3 billion in duties destined for US lumber producers, a Canadian lumber lobby says.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - The lobby group representing the US softwood lumber industry demanded today that its government appeal a US trade body ruling favourable to Canada&#39;s industry.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - Canada is moving a couple more pieces in the chess game that its softwood lumber trade battle with the United States has become.
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Millions of acres of the country's largest national forest would be open for logging and other development under a Bush administration forest management plan released yesterday, a move critics said will hurt wildlife and destroy pristine lands.
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ROME -- The United States and much of Europe have reversed years of deforestation and are showing a net increase in wooded areas, while most developing countries continue to cut down their trees, a UN agency said yesterday.
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Heavy consumer spending in the United States strains the global economy and also sustains it.
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In China, where coal is king, the governmentâs push to increase the use of alternative energies faces obstacles, from bureaucracy to bottlenecks in manufacturing.
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WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration, under pressure from a Democratic-controlled Congress to do something about America's soaring trade deficit, filed a trade case Friday against China in a dispute involving government subsidies.
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Sierra Leone re-imposes a timber export ban, accusing Chinese and other foreign firms of indiscriminate logging.
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Turning the tables on the United States amid growing worries over dangerous Chinese products, Beijing said Friday some health supplements, raisins and pistachios imported from the U.S. failed to meet China's safety standards and have been returned or destroyed.
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Tree rustlers are striking across the country, probably prompted by the rise in timber value and the increase in worldwide demand for American hardwood.
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US manufacturing and labor groups are asking the Bush administration for import caps on almost $2 billion in clothing and fabric from China.