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- AUDFob216.19/bdmt – average price of Australian hardwood chips exported to the Japanese port of Iwakuni in June 2018 – the highest individual price since at least early 2010
- -37.7% – approvals of 1 and 2 Storey Flats in Australia plunged to record lows over the last year, totalling just 1,527 flats
- 86,418 m3 – Structural Plywood imports for the year-ended June were up a whopping 35.9% on the prior year
- 12.9% – average increase in the cost of Bunker Fuel (used in shipping) from the start of 2018 to mid-August. Fuel is the single largest variable cost of freight shipping
- 85,813 m3 – imports of Sawn Softwood to Australia in June 2018
