China halves tariffs on US wood products
China announced Thursday that it will cut existing tariffs on $75 billion worth of U.S. goods in half as [...]
February 27, 2020
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Coronavirus likely to disrupt the U.S. furniture industry
U.S. business groups and furniture importers expect the spread of a new virus that originated in China to disrupt [...]
February 26, 2020
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Europe becoming China’s second softwood lumber supplier, surpassing Canada
Europe is now the second softwood lumber supplier to China; with a 60% yoy increase in deliveries.  [...]
February 26, 2020
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Coronavirus: Russia suspends timber trains to China
Since January 31st, all railway transport between Russia and China is suspended except for Beijing-Moscow round-trip [...]
February 18, 2020
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Coronavirus starts to shake to wood industry
There is industry concern that if the virus were to infect more people in coastal towns [...]
February 17, 2020
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European softwood logs invade the Chinese; market prices down sharply
European beetle logs have flooded the Chinese market. In the first ten months of the year [...]
February 10, 2020
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China plans to tackle the problem of illegal logging in a new forest law
In an encouraging move with the potential to create transformative market change, China recently amended its Forest Law to include [...]
February 7, 2020
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Vietnam to ban import of Chinese plywood
On the 12th of November 2019 the Vietnamese Minister of Industry and Trade of Vietnam signed and announced Circular No [...]
February 4, 2020
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January 2019 prices from China’s imports of lumber
he table above contain the latest price data of different imported lumber assortments at several Chinese [...]
February 4, 2020
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Significant rise in German softwood lumber exports to China and U.S.
A significant surge in softwood lumber exports from Germany to China has been reported during the [...]
January 21, 2020
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