<P> While challenges in today's market exist, the United States remains the second largest exporter of wood in the world . Its primary markets are Japan, Mexico, Germany, and the United Kingdom . Due to higher labor costs in the United States, it is common practice for raw materials to be exported, converted into finished goods and imported back into the United States . For this reason, more raw goods including logs and pulpwood chip are exported than imported in the United States, while finished goods like lumber, plywood and veneer, and panel products have higher imports than exports in the U.S. </P> <P> Recently there has been a resurgence in logging towns in the United States . This has been due in large part to the housing recovery . </P>

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