2015 Annual Survey of Manufacturing and Logging Industries

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This guide is designed to provide additional information as you work through the enclosed questions. The instructions included will help identify which questions apply to your business and are the ones that you should respond to.

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Step 1

From the table below, select products that were covered under the scope of the 2006 Canada - United States softwood lumber agreement that your business manufactured using softwood logs and bolts as raw material inputs.

*Please note that information on logs and bolts purchased and resold in the same condition (i.e. without any further processing or alteration) should be reported in section 3.

1. Coniferous wood sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or end-jointed/finger-jointed, of a thickness exceeding 6 mm
2. Coniferous wood flooring (including strips and friezes for parquet flooring, not assembled) continuously shaped (tongued, grooved, rabbeted, chamfered, V-jointed, beaded, molded, rounded or the like) along any of its edges, ends or faces, whether or not planed, sanded or end-jointed/finger-jointed
3. Coniferous wood siding (including strips and friezes for parquet flooring, not assembled) continuously shaped (tongued, grooved, rabbeted, chamfered, V-jointed, beaded, molded, rounded or the like) along any of its edges, ends or faces, whether or not planed, sanded or end-jointed/finger-jointed
4. Other coniferous wood (including strips and friezes for parquet flooring, not assembled) continuously shaped (tongued, grooved, rabbeted, chamfered, V-jointed, beaded, molded, rounded or the like) along any of its edges, ends or faces (other than wood moldings and wood dowel rods) whether or not planed, sanded or end-jointed/finger-jointed
5. Coniferous wood continuously shaped along any of its ends, whether or not also continuously shaped along any of its edges or faces, all the foregoing whether or not planed, sanded or end-jointed/finger-jointed
6. Coniferous drilled and notched lumber and angle cut lumber

If you selected at least one product, section 1

(Tables 1A to 1C) should be completed, then continue to step 2.
Otherwise, go to step 2.

Step 2

Does your business manufacture any other products using softwood logs and bolts as raw material inputs?

*Please note that information on logs and bolts purchased and resold in the same condition (i.e. without any further processing or alteration) should be reported in section 3.

1. Yes - section 2 (Tables 2A to 2C) should be completed, then continue to step 3
2. No - go to step 3

Step 3

Does your business sell any softwood logs and bolts that have been purchased and resold in the same condition (i.e. without any further processing or alteration in your business unit)?

1. Yes - section 3 (Table 3) should be completed, then continue to section 4
2. No - go to section 4

Step 4

Does your business manufacture any products using softwood lumber as raw material inputs?

1. Yes - section 4 (Tables 4A to 4C) should be completed, then continue to the comments section
2. No - go to the comments section

Reporting Instructions for All Sections

• Report all dollar amounts in thousands of Canadian dollars (‘000). (e.g., $55,417.40 should be reported as 55).
• Report quantities in the unit of measure indicated. For some common conversion factors please see table in Appendix A of this guide. If the desired conversion factor is not shown please use the factor that is most suitable or common within your industry.
• When precise figures are not available please provide your best estimates.

Reporting Instructions for Purchase and Harvest Values

Applicable Tables: 1A, 2A, 3, 4A

Report the laid-down cost (FOB plant gate, but excluding GST) for all raw materials and components purchased and harvested for your manufacturing process. In sections 1, 2, and 4 do not include goods purchased for resale, such as logs and bolts purchased and resold in the same condition (i.e. without any further processing or alteration).

Reporting Instructions for Sales Values

Applicable Tables: 1B, 1C, 2B, 2C, 3, 4B, 4C

In sections 1, 2, and 4 do not include goods purchased for resale such as logs and bolts purchased and resold in the same condition (i.e. without any further processing or alteration).

Sales should be reported FOB factory/mill gate: net of excise and provincial or territorial sales taxes, HST/GST, trade discounts, returns and allowances, and charges for outward transportation by common or contract carriers. (Note: FOB factory/mill gate means truck gate if using own truck and driver). Sales denominated in foreign currency should be converted into Canadian dollars at the exchange rate on the day of transaction.

• If you are a single business unit firm, sales must be reported at your final selling price.
• If you are part of a multi-business unit firm:
  1. Sales to your firm's non-manufacturing business units must be reported at your final selling price.
  2. Sales to your firm's manufacturing business units, sales branches, selling warehouses or head offices should be reported at the value shown on your books of account (i.e., book transfer value

Appendix A: Conversion Factors:

Multiply the values in the “Convert From” unit of measure by the “Conversion Factor” to obtain values in the “Convert To” unit of measure.

Links:
Link for the 2006 Canada–United States softwood lumber agreement, specifying annex 1A

The products that were covered under the scope of the 2006 Canada- United States Softwood Lumber Agreement were listed in Annex 1A of the agreement.

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