Asia & Middle East

Germany becomes the second supplier of logs to China

China’s log imports in the first two months of 2020 totalled 7.73 million cubic metres valued at US [...]

Vietnam’s wood industry faces coronavirus pandemic and anti-dumping tariffs

    The widespread coronavirus  pandemic has resulted in a serious disruption of the supply chains. Besides difficulties [...]

Forestry companies in China increase overseas timber purchases in order to secure domestic supply

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread throughout the world, production in major wood-producing countries has stalled, the patterns [...]

Huge impact of pandemic on the Vietnamese timber sector, says survey

In the recent decade, based on 2 key competitive advantages, including cheap labour (average monthly wage of US$300) and [...]

Huge impact of pandemic on the Indonesian timber sector, survey reveals

The economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic and the measures adopted to try and slow its spread are having a [...]

South Korea could impose anti-dumping duty on plywood from Vietnam

The South Korean Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy has decided to ask the Ministry of Economy and Finance to [...]

Shortage of imported timber throws Chinese wood industry into panic

The demand for imported wood in China's wood products industry has gradually recovered. However, on the one hand, overseas [...]

Coronavirus: Skyrocketing timber prices in China as global supply falls sharply

In the recent period, coronavirus pandemic has reduced logging in many countries, overseas container costs and sea freight prices have [...]