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[dornbeast]

What are you asking for in the import lines?

If you can get any kind of coal from the homeland, you should push that slider all the way to the right every time the dwarven liaison arrives.  Trade the cloth for the coal, make all the coke you can, melt the metal armor, then train your smiths with the iron and steel.

If you can't get coal, order tower-cap in bulk, and make charcoal.

At ten years in, you can afford to pay premium prices, especially for coal or wood.

(I assume you've pre-ordered raw material in case your nobles make a mandate to craft something.)

[Jim Groovester]

The solution is obvious. You need a centrally located killing method, so your dwarves don't have to haul all the junk from halfway across the map.

[Areyar]

place them in your most busy hallways, they will degrade ... probably not faster than they get replaced though.
all stuff left outside should just rot already...not stone though...or bars ... actually most would rust, but heh.
Stuff left in water too.

[HatfieldCW]

Do clothes rot away just from being outdoors?

[Jim Groovester]

I don't think so. I think clothes only rot away when worn.

[Albedo]

Clothes (and any valuables) left outside will sometimes lure thieves or monkeys to steal them instead of testing your entrance defenses.

[Areyar]

Sorry, I should have been more clear.
Stuff SHOULD rot/wear when left outside, currently only corpses, prepared food, rawhide and bones do so.

I've read though that repeated walking over stuff damages them... slowly.
If only fire was easilly available, being on fire really wears things out fast. Currently the easiest way to get fire is to get magmacreatures, but then you could just dump crap into the lava.

[Rowanas]

hmm... just pull in all the good stuff and leave all the rest. who cares if macaques steal it? (I do, but I'm a proper dwarven miser) If kobolds go for it then you'll get even more invaders in the form of the kobolds!

[milaga]

I'm pretty much finished with the megaconstruction. Sort of a mini-megaconstruction I guess. Had a few setbacks since I didn't have much experience with retractable bridge traps. Fortunately the only casualties were my caged goblins, who coincidentally were stored in a room below where I was designing the mess. Hope to give it a test run tonight.

[Hyndis]

While you can mod goblins so they don't wear clothing but still wear armor, this does require you to regenerate the world.

You can simply leave it laying around. Some animals will steal it, as well as kobolds. Apparently if kobolds steal enough wealth from you they'll actually start attacking!

Or at least thats what the rumor is. Kobolds in my fortress have a lifespan measured in seconds.

[milaga]

One fort I had there were numerous kobold thefts. By numerous I mean about two or three because my average number is zero. I got kobold ambushers. They ambushed both my human and dwarven liason. Since it was only my second year it was a pretty crippling blow to my trading. Lost a lot of dwarves to moods when you can't even scrounge up a turtle shell.

[Forumsdwarf]

Ahh ... okay, if you export all that gobbo junk do you get credit for that?

[Jim Groovester]

It counts for trading but it doesn't go to your exported wealth total.

[Forumsdwarf]

So unless the traders get it in their heads to bring massive quantities of platinum bars there's no way to "launder" the value of all that laundry.

(har har)

[Qwernt]

Build your killing zone directly above either your trade center or your atom smasher.  a few squares behind the kill zone dig a trench down so you can drop stuff directly down to the trade center or smasher.

Other suggestion - Agile dwarves move faster.  Send all your packing dwarves to Catapult school for 2 years and watch how much faster Legendary Engineers pack stuff.