Projecting into 2019, importers were concerned at the potential for an increase in market impacts of Chinese tariffs on US timber. Currently at 5-10% these are scheduled to double in March 2019.  “So far, US shippers and Chinese buyers seem to have split the difference, but that will change when tariffs rise,” a UK importer told the country’s Timber Trades Journal. “With China accounting for over 50% of all US hardwood exports, that has to have repercussions.”  As 85% of Chinese US imports are red oak, one importer said they wouldn’t ...