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sible north country. High costs of logging and 

 transportation may keep a considerable part of 

 this resource economically inaccessible for a long 

 time. Furthermore, it is possible that the expand- 

 ing economies of the Soviet countries will require 

 most of the timber that can be economically 

 harvested and processed. 



All in all, despite the vast extent of Soviet soft- 

 wood forests, it is unlikely that any substantial 



volume of Soviet timber would reach markets in 

 the United States even though trade between the 

 Soviet Bloc and free-world countries were un- 

 restricted. In any event timber products from the 

 United States should be able to compete in other 

 parts of the world with similar products from 

 Soviet countries, should other factors favor an 

 expansion of timber-products export from this 

 country. 



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