Huh, I thought they imported most of their oak, didn’t know they had much of it there. I timbered my property a few years ago and all the veneer quality white oak and walnut was bought at the standing auction on site by a Japanese importer. He had to buy all of it, but everything of lower quality he let a local lumber company harvest at a much lower bid price.
Now you know why. It’s in drums...........soon to be barrels..................