Global Timber and Wood Products Market Update
- a news brief from Wood Resources International LLC
Steady increase in global trade of wood chips the past ten years; Japan
and China imported 83 percent of traded hardwood chips in 2012,
reports the Wood...
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Global Timber and Wood Products Market Update
- a news brief from Wood Resources International LLC
Steady increase in global trade of wood chips the past ten years; Japan
and China imported 83 percent of traded hardwood chips in 2012,
reports the Wood Resource Quarterly
The global pulp industry has increased its importation of wood chips the past ten years,
reaching the second highest import levels on record in 2012, reports the Wood Resource
Quarterly.
Japan, China, Finland and Turkey were the largest importing countries last
year.
Seattle, USA.
Wood chips are one of the few forest products commodities that have seen
a steadily increasing trend in globally traded volumes the past decade.
With the exception
of 2009, when global production of pulp fell by about ten percent and the demand for
wood fiber was down, international trade of wood chips has increased every year from
2000 to 2011, as reported in the Wood Resource Quarterly.
(www.
woodprices.
com)
From 2009 to 2012, global c
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