The North American kraft shipping sack paper market is now in the seasonally slow period of the year, but contacts this week said pricing remained "stable" with mills expected to stay busy through the first quarter. This is in contrast to last year when prices began to drop late in the year as export demand collapsed due to a global inventory-reduction. North American mills pushed more tonnage into the domestic market and some European mills offered tonnage at low spot prices in the USA, resulting in the rollback of a $50/ton price increase from late summer 2011.
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