Russian Timber Journal 12-2022: interview with Anatoly Shcherbakov, Director for Timber Supply and Logistics at VLP Group; preliminary results of the Russian timber industry for 2022: the beginning of complex structural transformations; Lithuania tightens control over timber imports from Russia and Belarus; the Russian Government extended the increased rates of customs duties applied to exports of raw sawn timber until the end of 2025; plywood production in Russia fell to a ten-year low in 2022
Russian Timber Journal 12-2022: Anatoly Shcherbakov, Director for Timber Supply and Logistics at VLP Group: “No effective state aid measures to support timber harvesting activities have been taken so far”; preliminary results of the Russian timber industry for 2022: the beginning of complex structural transformations; the Lithuanian customs is increasingly identifying cases when they try to import wood or wood products made in the Russian Federation and Belarus into the European Union; according to Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 2484 dated December 28, 2022, increased rates of customs duties on the export of roughly processed timber were extended until the end of 2025; plywood production in Russia fell to a ten-year low in 2022.
Featured Article:
— Interview with Anatoly Shcherbakov, Director for Timber Supply and Logistics at VLP Group
— Preliminary results of the Russian timber industry for 2022: the beginning of complex structural transformations
— Lithuania tightens control over timber imports from Russia and Belarus
— The Russian Government extended the increased rates of customs duties applied to exports of raw sawn timber until the end of 2025
— Plywood production in Russia fell to a ten-year low in 2022
Global Timber Markets News:
— Lithuania tightens control over timber imports from Russia and Belarus
— Luke: timber trade in private forests was brisk in November
— Year-end 2022 US lumber prices remain flat
— Softwood plywood market in Japan
Russian News:
— Russia simplifies the procedure for confirming the 0% VAT rate for exporters
— The Government extended the ban on the entry of trucks from the EU
— Rosleshoz authorized to provide forest areas for priority investment projects
— Rosleshoz, together with the regional agencies, to address the issue of calculating forest area lease payments based on the actual amount of timber harvested
— The Russian Government adjusted rates of forest use fees
— 21 timber enterprises of the Krasnoyarsk region benefited from state support measures in 2022
— Russian Wood Resources Report #12-2022: restoration of the equilibrium on the roundwood market is postponed to Q1 2023
— Rosleshoz approved 16 applications for investment projects concerning raw timber supply in 2022
— Amcor sells its factories in Russia
— CPM completed the acquisition of Firma Vesta LLC
— CPM acquired Troitskaya Paper Mill
— Gotek-Center put into operation a new flatbed die cutter
— The Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of Construction of Russia continue to elaborate a roadmap for the formation of a domestic market for the production and consumption of standardized glued laminated timber structures
— Segezha Group obtained a Kazakhstan certificate for its CLT panels
— United Panel Group opened a new biofuel production facility in Udmurtia
— Galich Plywood Mill officially started production in December 2022
— The first container train sent to India from Nigozero station (Karelia)
— The volume of production of timber products in January-November 2022 compared to the same period last year
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