Discontinuation of Log Lines prices for Region 4 logs – Implementation

Fastmarkets has today discontinued prices for Region 4 logs in Log Lines on April 22, 2024.

April 23, 2024

By William Perritt

After a consultation period that began on February 19, 2024, and ended on March 21 2024, Fastmarkets has discontinued Region 4 log prices. The last assessment published March 2024.

To provide feedback on this or if you would like to provide price information by becoming a data submitter to Log Lines, please contact William Perritt by email at: wperritt@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading ‘FAO: William Perritt, re: Log Lines’. Please indicate if comments are confidential. Fastmarkets will consider all comments received and will make comments not marked as confidential available upon request.

To see all Fastmarkets pricing methodology and specification documents, go to the Fastmarkets forest products methodology.

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