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NZ logging halt undercuts strong export month

27-05-2020
New Zealand, log, export, prices, April 2020

Log exports fell sharply in April 2020 after logging operations were suspended during alert level 4, but average prices per cubic metre picked up, Stats NZ said today. Total exports fell $220 million (4 percent) to $5.3 billion in April 2020 compared with the same month last year. “Total exports would have been worth almost the same as …

Indonesia backed off plans to loosen rules for timber legality

21-05-2020
Indonesia, ministry of trade, legality, timber, forestry, SVLK, exports, EU, vertification

Indonesia has turned back on plans to weaken rules for the timber exports, following warnings that continuing the move would undermine efforts to combat illegal logging and deforestation, reported TTJ. According to Reuters, the changes in timber legality rules put forward by Indonesia's trade ministry earlier this year would have ended …

Vietnam wood and wood product export earnings see 6% growth in first four months of 2020

19-05-2020
Vietnam, wood and wood products, export, earnings, markets, performance, first 4 months, 2020

Vietnam’s coronavirus situation in control After a week with no new corona cases Vietnam's government eased its 22-day social distancing requirement on 23 April allowing some businesses to reopen. Vietnam acted very fast when the virus outbreak was detected in China by closing the border, reported ITTO. With only 288 confirmed corona cases …

Sharp decline in China’s plywood and wood furniture exports; wooden doors rose in output value in 2019

18-05-2020
China, plywood, furniture, wooden doors, exports, 1Q 2020, coronavirus

According to China Customs, in the first quarter of 2020, China’s plywood exports were 1.85 million cubic metres valued at US$787.6 million, a drop of 85% and 82% respectively over the same period in 2019, reported ITTO. The main markets for plywood exports in the first quarter were the Philippines (131,000 cu.m), UK (129,000 cu.m), Japan …

India: Exports in March contracted by 35%

14-05-2020
India, manufacturing, exports, housing, impact, coronavirus, pandemic, lockdown

After 30 days of the 40-day lockdown to control the spread of coronavirus, the two western states of Maharashtra and Gujarat have so far accounted for more than half of the nationwide infections and almost 80% of the fatalities, reported ITTO. Manufacturing at 4-month low While the manufacturing sector was largely unaffected by the impact of …

Vietnam’s exports surge in four months despite pandemic

08-05-2020
Vietnam, trade, import, export, surge, January, April, 2020, wood products, pandemic

According to statistics released by the General Statistics Office (GSO), Vietnam's export value saw a year-on-year increase of nearly 5 per cent to an estimated US$82.94 billion in the first four months of 2020 despite the ongoing pandemic, reported Vietnam News. Domestic companies generated $26.45 billion from exports during the period, an …

Japan’s Forest Agency projects on new housing starts and forestry industry

08-05-2020
Japan, Forestry Agent, new housing starts, log supply, lumber, import, exports,

The Forestry Agency held wood demand projection meeting on March 23. Average new housing starts forecasted by 12 private think tanks are 847,000 units and two think tanks forecasted less than 800,000 units. Major house builders also reported that orders are declining and it is general view that starts of detached unit would continue to be severed …

Acimall: Italian woodworking machinery and tools production down 9.9% in 2019

06-05-2020
ACIMALL, Italian, woodworking machinery, tools, value, export

In 2019, Italian industry of woodworking machinery and tools slid 9.9 per cent to value of Euro 2,266 million, reported Acimall, the Confindustria member association that represents industry companies from Italy. Such drop resulted from an “acceptable” trend in the first part of the year, followed by more significant reductions that …

Indonesia exporters will continue with SVLK

23-04-2020
Indonesia, SVLK, Timber Legality Verification System, exporters, APHI

Executive Director of Association of Indonesian Forest Concessionaires (APHI), Purwadi Soeprihanto, said that the association was committed to meeting the Timber Legality Verification System (SVLK) requirements for products to be exported, adding that the SVLK has reduced the stigma of illegal logging and weak forest management in Indonesia, …

China’s tropical sawnwood imports from Thailand continue to decline

08-04-2020
tropical sawnwood, Thailand, China, trade, export, import

Thailand still is the main source of tropical sawnwood for China and in 2019, tropical sawnwood imports from Thailand totalled 3.59 million cubic metres valued at US$1.038 billion, a year-on-year decline in volume of 19% and a 26% decline in value, reported ITTO. Thailand’s market share for tropical sawnwood exports to China was 59% but …

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