Although improved efficiency in converting harvested trees into wood products may reduce harvest rates, it will stimulate demand by increasing supply and lowering prices, thereby boosting consumption.

虽然提高砍伐树木转化为木材产品的效率可能会降低收获率，但它将通过增加供应和降低价格来刺激需求，从而促进消费。

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The export surge also doesn't include wood from other regions. Prices for southern pine, for example, rose just 4.8% in the period, to $65 from $62.

其他地区的木材没有享受到这种出口的激增，比如美国南方松的价格同期从62美元上涨到65美元，涨幅仅4.8%。

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Asian economies have snapped up dairy and wood products from New Zealand and metals from Australia, and have helped raise the prices of Canada's oil and natural gas, boosting export revenues.

亚洲经济体从新西兰大量采购奶制品和木制品，从澳大利亚采购金属，并且帮助抬高了加拿大的石油和天然气的价格，推动了其出口收入。

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The commodities boom has increased the prices of wood and metals.

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Mr. Ohlsson said declining costs for raw materials such as cotton and wood likely would allow the company to cut prices another 1% this fiscal year.

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But obsolete wood processing machinery and the continued fall of primary commodity prices including gold and cocoa, have taken its toll.

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