Pricey Lumber? Blame China.
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Asia may be at fault for the rising cost of building your new home.
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US duties of 27 percent on $4.6 billion of Canadian lumber shipments may soon fall after the Washington-based International Trade Commission concurred with a trade panel&#39;s ruling that the levies were baseless.
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WASHINGTON -- Robert Stec would like to help clean up the nation's dirty air, but at $1 million a plant to install air-pollution control technology, it would be cheaper for him to move his furniture manufacturing business overseas.
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Foreign firms are lining up to invest in China. But Beijing seems increasingly loath to let them in
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One of the mantras of global industry  in recent years has been keeping inventories lean and mean, but  there are increasing signs this cost-cutting strategy is  creating strains and causing companies to miss out on sales.
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Supply doesn't come close to meeting demand in North America, tensions high.
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China's Small Industries Struggle to be Green (3) Meanwhile, for small industries, even if the entrepreneurs want to make their plants energy friendly by upgrading the technologies, getting loans from the bank is not easy.
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Illegal local government construction destroying China's forests   BEIJING, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- China's State Forestry Administration (SFA) has blasted local authorities and private companies for flaunting the law by chopping down forests to make way for new transport links.
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Here's one China-themed stock that's not doing so well.
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BEIJING -- Scanning the headlines in the Chinese press, it's easy to conclude that the global brouhaha over product safety is not about China -- but about America.
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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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Convenience comes at too big a price.
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WELLINGTON (Dow Jones)--About 20 New Zealand forestry and wood-processing firms are planning to work together to target the Chinese markets, the Dominion Post newspaper reported Monday.
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Business & money: Superstore groups prepare to stomach higher prices because of far east demand and biofuel incentives.
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The iPhone can be bought in China, even though Apple Inc. isn't selling it there and the gadget doesn't function properly despite costing twice as much as in the United States.
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From the mines of Australia to the forests of Myanmar, China's rapid growth is sucking up resources and pulling the region's economies in its wake.
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Home Depot gets the headlines, but Builders FirstSource has the value.