Australian exporters receive new opportunities to ship logs to China

Australian exporters receive new opportunities to ship logs to China following a 2.5-year ban, but exports are not anticipated to reach historic levels. At the end of 2020, China banned the importation of plantation pine logs from Australia, stating that bark beetles had infected the logs. This decision resulted in a collapse of Australian exports as China was practically the only log market being served. As a result, total shipments from Australia fell from over 3.5 million m3 annually during 2016-2020 to less than 400,000 m3 in 2022. When the ban was implemented, Australian ...