China

Coronavirus crisis effects on the global trade of wood products likely to last until 2021

    Pandemic effects will be delayed for forest products industries and recovery slower, particularly for landowners who [...]

European softwood lumber exports move from China to Egypt

In the first two months of 2020, Chinese imports of softwood lumber was 7.9% down y-o-y to [...]

New Zealand’s forest industry prepares to get back to work

    New Zealand's forest industry organisations are planning how to get back to work when restrictions [...]

China’s imports of logs, lumber, pulp and wood chips collapse in Jan.-Feb. 2020

The coronavirus epidemic in China has resulted in sharply reduced importation of forest products in early 2020. During January and [...]

New Zealand’s radiata pine logs prices rise in March as productivity in China increases

    The February At Wharf Gate (AWG) prices for logs at New Zealand ports were predominantly rolled [...]

Prices of logs in China on the rise as supply from New Zealand and Europe is reduced

    In the first week of March the CFR sale price for A grade radiata pine in [...]

Russia’s Far East exports of logs to be increased by tariff reductions

Recently, the Ministry of Development of the Russian Far East and the Arctic told the media that the Ministry of [...]

Forecast: What’s the impact of the coronavirus on the Chinese timber industry?

    During the coronavirus crisis, nearly half of the companies in the Chinese wood industry reported that [...]