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Below is a listing of CINTRAFOR Working Papers and Special Reports.  These are all hyperlinked to individual abstracts.  The full report is available at a cost of $50 each.  Ordering information is shown on-line.

• China’s Forest Sector: Essays on Production Efficiency, Foreign Investment, and Trade and Illegal Logging.  2012
• The Impact of Green Building Programs on the Japanese and Chinese Residential Construction Industries and the Market for Imported Wooden Building Materials.  2011
• Japanese F-4Star Formaldehyde Rating Process for Value-Added Wood Products.  2011
• Emerging Power Builders: Japan’s Transitional Housing Industry after the Lost Decade.  2010
• Exploring the Market Potential of Pacific Silver Fir in the US Residential Decking Market.  2010
• Positioning and Market Analysis of the US Decking Materials Market: A Perceptual Mapping Approach.  2010
• Economic Contribution of the Forestry & Wood Processing Sectors in the State of Washington.  2009
• A Comparative Assessment of the North American and Japanese 2×4 Residential Construction Systems: Opportunities for US Building Materials.  2009
• Trends in the Japanese Forest Products Market & Implications for Alaska Forest Products.  2009
• The Japanese Market for Laminated Lumber & Glulam Beams: Implications for Alaskan Forest Products.  2009
• An Economic Assessment of the Lumber Manufacturing Sector in Western Washington.  2009
• CINTRAFOR Decking Material Survey Results.   2009
• Review of the Japanese Green Building Program and the Domestic Wood Program.  2008
• Forest Certification and Its Influence on the Forest Products Industry in China.  2007
• Material Substitution Trends in Residential Construction 1995, 1998, 2001 and 2004.  2007
• China Treated Lumber Market Study.  2007
• The Market for Softwood Lumber in Japan: Opportunities for Douglas-fir Structural Lumber for Hirakaku.  2007
• Overview of the Indian Market for US Wood Products.  2007
• Wood Market Trends in China 2007 Edition.   2007
• Wood Market Trends in Japan 2006 Edition.   2006
• Opportunities for US Building Materials Markets in China.   2006
• Distribution Systems for Value-added Wood Products in China.  2006
• Niche Market Opportunities for Alaska Forest Products in Japan (2005 Update).  2005
• Material Use in the US Deck Market: An Assessment of the Market Potential for Alaska Yellow Cedar.  2005
• Material Use in the US Decking Market.   2005
• China Sourcebook: An introduction to the Chinese Residential Construction and Building Materials Market.  2004
• Material Substitution Trends in Residential Construction 1995, 1998 and 2001.  2004
• Structural Panel Use in Residential Construction in 2001.   2004
• Material Substitution Trends in Residential Construction: 1995, 1998 and 2001.   2004
• Niche Market Opportunities for Alaskan Forest Products in Japan.   2003
• Factors that Influenced the Export Success of Forest Products Companies in the Pacific Northwest during the 1997-1998 Japanese Economic Downturn.   2002
• A Competitive Assessment of the Japanese Forestry and Forest Products Sectors.  2002
• Factors that Influenced the Export Success of Forest Products Companies in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) During the 1997-1998 Japanese Economic Downturn.   2002
• China Wood and Building Materials Market.   2002
• China’s Non-Structural Building Materials Market.   2002
• Report on the Taiwan Market for Wood-Frame Construction and Softwood Building Materials.  2001
• How Competitive Advantages Can Lower Entry Barriers in China: Case Studies in the Interior Building Products Industry.   2001
• A Technical Evaluation of the Market for US Wood Windows within the Japanese Post and Beam Construction Industry.   2001
• China’s Housing Market: A Policy Assessment and Outlook for Wood Consumption.   2001
• Small Diameter Timber: A Review of the Literature.   2001
• A Technical Evaluation of the Market for US Wood Windows Within the Japanese Post and Beam Construction Industry.   2001
• An Update on Japan’s Proposed Safeguard Action Against Softwood Lumber Imports.   2001
• A Study of the Effects of the Canada-US Softwood Lumber Agreement.   2001