What percent of US hardwood production is devoted to making pallets? “And yet pa

What percent of US hardwood production is devoted to making pallets?

“And yet pallets are arguably as integral to globalization as containers. For an invisible object, they are everywhere: There are said to be billions circulating through global supply chain (2 billion in the United States alone). Some 80 percent of all U.S. commerce is carried on pallets. So widespread is their use that they account for, according to one estimate, more than 46 percent of total U.S. hardwood lumber production.” – Cowen