Adding value to Australia's forest products
Industry Commission inquiry report
Released 15 / 09 / 1993
The Industry Commission inquiry report contains the findings of the Industry Commission public inquiry, in response to a request from the Commonwealth Government, to examine the potential for adding further value to Australia's forest products in the woodchip, sawn timber, plywood and panel, pulp, paper and paper packaging industries.
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- Contents
- Preliminaries
- Cover, Copyright, Signing Page, Contents, Abbreviations, Terms of Reference, Overview, Findings and Recommendations
- PART A - BACKGROUND INFORMATION
- 1 Introduction
- 2 International Perspective
- 2.1 Forest resources
- 2.2 Industry characteristics
- 2.3 Trade in forest products
- 3 Australia's Forest Products Industries
- 3.1 Size and significance
- 3.2 Industry structure
- 3.3 Major products
- PART B - INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS
- 4 Market Performance
- 4.1 Australia's participation in trade
- 4.2 Wood products
- 4.3 Paper products
- 4.4 Influence of non-price factors on competitiveness
- 4.5 Conclusions
- 5 Comparative Cost Structures
- 5.1 Underlying determinants of cost competitiveness
- 5.2 Basis of cost comparisons
- 5.3 Wood products
- 5.4 Paper products
- PART C - IMPEDIMENTS TO IMPROVED COMPETITIVENESS
- 6 Wood Supplies
- 6.1 Sovereign risk
- 6.2 Improving the efficiency of Australia's forestry agencies
- 6.3 Compensation payments by government
- 6.4 Private wood supplies
- 6.5 Government export controls
- 7 Government Provided Services
- 7.1 Land transport
- 7.2 Port and shipping services
- 7.3 Energy supplies
- 8 Other Impediments
- 8.1 Management and labour issues
- 8.2 Project and environmental approval processes
- 8.3 Government measures to encourage paper recycling
- 8.4 Building codes, product standards and quality assurance
- PART D - POTENTIAL FOR DEVELOPMENT
- 9 Prospects For Development
- 9.1 Strengths and weaknesses
- 9.2 Opportunities and threats
- 9.3 Summary
- 10 Improving Performance
- 10.1 Initiatives by companies to improve performance
- 10.2 Role of government
- Appendices
- A Inquiry participants
- B Trends in Australia's forest products industries
- C Trade opportunities in forest products in the Asian region
- D Potential competitiveness of wood products
- E Competitiveness of paper products
- F Australia's forest resources
- G Quantifying the effects of impediments in the forest products industries
- H Demand trends
- I Research and development
- J Assistance to forest products industries
- References