Signal · Commodities & Input Costs
AF&PA Releases July 2026 Printing-Writing Monthly Report
What the source reported
Source-reportedAccording to the report, total printing-writing paper shipments decreased 9% in July compared to July 2025. Total printing-writing paper inventory levels increased 3% when compared to June 2026. Using the latest trade data available from the U.S. Census Bureau, purchases of total printing-writing papers showed little change in June compared to the same month last year. Across the 3 major printing-writing categories–uncoated free sheet (UFS), coated free sheet (CFS), and mechanical (MECH)–U.S. shipments in July showed negative results when compared to the same month last year. CFS shipments performed best, decreasing 6%.
- Publication
- AF&PA monthly Packaging Papers and Printing-Writing reports (public headline releases) · Commodity/Energy Organisation
- Published
- 19th August 2026
- Original report
- afandpa.org
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What ProcIntel recorded
ProcIntel-derived- Category
- Commodities & Input Costs
- Geography
- United States
- Organisations
- None identified
- Collected
- 30th September 2026 · 05:45
Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.
A provisional, automatically computed reading of this individual Signal, before Event extraction or human review. Not a final rating.
Initial Significance Low (14.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (6.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Geographic Breadth (0.0/10 points). Initial Confidence Moderate (47.0/100, data sufficiency: Partial). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (28.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Extraction Quality (3.0/15 points).
- Strongest contributor
- Procurement Impact
- Limiting factor
- Geographic Breadth