Signal · Commodities & Input Costs
AF&PA Releases September 2026 Printing-Writing Monthly Report
What the source reported
Source-reportedAccording to the report, total printing-writing paper shipments decreased 9% in September compared to September 2025. U.S. purchases of total printing-writing papers increased 6% in August compared to the same month last year. Total printing-writing paper inventory levels decreased 6% when compared to August 2026. Across the 3 major printing-writing categories–uncoated free sheet (UFS), coated free sheet (CFS), and mechanical (MECH)–net exports decreased 14% in August compared to the same month last year. Individually, UFS decreased 17%, CFS increased 11% while MECH net exports decreased 20%.
- Publication
- AF&PA monthly Packaging Papers and Printing-Writing reports (public headline releases) · Commodity/Energy Organisation
- Published
- 19th October 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
- 20th October 2026 · 00:30
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