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EU softwood lumber exports to China crash in H1/2018

      The European softwood lumber exports to China fell by -27% during January-June 2018 [...]

Rising Chinese interest in Swedish softwood lumber

Shanghai fair confirmed the furniture industry’s interest in Swedish sawn timber. In September, Swedish Wood participated in the FMC [...]

US hardwood exports to China on the rise despite trade war

The exports of American hardwood to South-East Asia and China recorded gains in the first half of 2018 in [...]

Finland sawmill industry: All eyes on the Chinese market

Last spring, Finlands sawmill industry said that pulp mills growing hunger for wood and the rising price of raw lumber [...]
October 2, 2018 Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Sawmilling / China / Europe

Chinese wood companies reroute wood products as to beat US tariffs

As the trade war between China and the U.S. festers, business leaders and analysts say Chinese producers are likely [...]

Chinese sawnwood imports and prices up sharply this year

China’s sawnwood imports in the first quarter of 2018 totalled 8.28 million cubic metres valued at US$2 [...]

Europe might profit from the US-China trade war

The additional tariffs of the US government under President Donald Trump slow the Chinese growth by 0.1 to 0 [...]

Vietnamese timber industry to benefit from the US-China trade war

  The trade war between the U.S. and China officially started on 6 July after the U.S [...]