The Sustainable Forestry Initiatives impact on stumpage markets in the US South
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Using survey data and an equilibrium displacement model, we estimate the market and economic impacts of the American Forest and Paper Association’s Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) on stumpage markets in the US South. We examine four timber product markets: softwood pulpwood, softwood sawtimber, hardwood pulpwood, and hardwood sawtimber. In each market we calculate changes in producer and consumer welfare using the equilibrium displacement model that accounts for reductions in timber inventories caused by SFI compliance. We find that SFI compliance costs the US South’s economy about $36 million annually. SFI-compliant stumpage producers lose more than $33 million each year in producer surplus as a result of SFI compliance, and consumers lose about $12 million annually in consumer surplus due to higher product prices. These costs are offset partially by benefits to nonindustrial private forest producers, non-SFI-compliant industry producers, and public forest producers, who collectively gain about $10 million in producer surplus annually as a result of higher stumpage prices. Résumé : À l’aide de données d’enquête et d’un modèle de déplacement d’équilibre, les auteurs ont estimé les impacts économiques et sur les marchés de la Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) de l’American Forest and Paper Association sur les marchés du bois sur pied du Sud des États-Unis. Ils ont étudié les marchés de quatre produits du bois : le bois à pâte résineux, le bois de sciage résineux, le bois à pâte feuillu et le bois de sciage feuillu. Pour chaque marché, ils ont calculé les changements dans le bien-être des producteurs et des consommateurs à l’aide du modèle qui tient compte des réductions dans les inventaires de bois causées par l’adhésion à la SFI. Ils constatent que le fait de se conformer à la SFI coûte à l’économie du Sud des États-Unis environ 36 millions de dollars annuellement. Les producteurs de bois sur pied qui se conforment à la SFI perdent plus de 33 millions de dollars chaque année en surplus des producteurs en se conformant à la SFI et les consommateurs perdent environ 12 millions de dollars en surplus des consommateurs à cause du prix plus élevé des produits. Ces coûts sont partiellement compensés par des bénéfices aux producteurs de forêt privée non industrielle, aux producteurs industriels qui ne se conforment pas à la SFI et aux producteurs sur forêt publique qui collectivement enregistrent annuellement un gain d’environ 10 millions de dollars en surplus des producteurs à cause des prix du bois sur pied plus élevés. [Traduit par la Rédaction] Brown and Zhang 2064
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