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secondary wood industries (Hoff et al. 1997;Buehlmann and Schuler 2002; Buehlmann 2004;
Schuler and Buehlmann 2003). Some companieshave initiated strategies with a goal of increasingtheir competitiveness in this rapidly changing
marketplace (Morse 2002; Buehlmann andSchuler 2004). While a lot of attention has been
given to ways the domestic furniture industrycould strengthen their competitive advantage,much less focus has been given to the hardwood
FIG. 1. Total United States furniture imports 1992–2002 (source: Buehlmann et al. 2004)
366 WOOD AND FIBER SCIENCE, APRIL 2006, V. 38(2)supply chain that has traditionally supplied thismanufacturing sector.
The decline in the domestic furniture manufacturing
sector has impacted domestic hardwood

 

 

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