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Hunter’s Corner
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Carters is the symptom, lack of competition is the disease

The Commerce Commission helped create the current structural timber problem.

Tim Hunter Fri, 02 Jul 2021

Of the following two statements, pick the one you think is true.

New Zealand was the world’s biggest exporter of industrial coniferous roundwood in 2019, with export volumes more than double those of the Russian Federation and triple the US.

New Zealand has a timber shortage in 2021.

If

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Tim Hunter Fri, 02 Jul 2021
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