Tag: exports

WhatWood’s annual review: In 2013, Russian timber industry found its growth points

The last year has not brought any fundamentally new trends to the forest industry of Russia: companies tried to reduce the high cost of log procurement and production, also looking for new points of growth. Eventually export demand...

Global Trends Review, May 19 – June 01, 2014: China’s domestic timber output share remained at 51%; European Q1 timber trade statistics

China’s domestic timber production rose 2% to 83.67 million m3 in 2013, ITTO reported. Timber imports (logs and sawnwood) rose 18% to 79.16 million m3 log equivalent, and the value of China’s timber imports grew 26% to $16.1...

Russian government temporarily returned limitations on log exports for rent debtors

The Russian government changed again the approach to the distribution of export tariff quotas on coniferous wood, adopting the new edition of the relevant rules, which will operate temporarily until 30 June 2015, as said by the Forest...

WhatWood: In Q1 2014, average export price for Russian sawn timber rose 0.2%

The average price of sawn timber exported from Russia following the results of the first quarter of 2014 amounted to $176.3, which is 0.2% higher than a year ago. Compared to Q4 2013, prices increased by 1%. However,...

Timber exports from Russia to China through Suifenhe sharply increased in Q1

In January-March 2014, a sharp increase was registered in the imports of wood from Russia through the border town of Suifenhe (Heilongjiang province), as Xinhua agency reported. Deliveries of roundwood increased by 38% year-on-year up to 990 thousand...

Base prices for Russian softwood timber in Europe in 2013

Exports of softwood timber from Russia to Europe amounted to 4.36 million m3 in 2013. The countries of Baltic region and North Sea constitute the major market there, the largest importers being Finland, Germany, Estonia, France, UK, and...

In 2013, DAF prices of Russian timber in China decreased

During eleven months of 2013, average export prices for timber shipments from Russia to China at various shipping points were in the range of $77- $165 per m3 on DAF conditions. The average price of pine lumber on...

Russian government revised rules for softwood export tariff quotas

The Government of Russia has introduced fundamental changes in the rules for allocation of tariff quotas on the exports of unprocessed timber of spruce, fir and pine trees outside Russia and the participants of Customs Union. These rules...

Loggers request not to cancel VAT return for log exports

Top managers of Lesnoy Soyuz partnership and the Chamber of Commerce sent a letter to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev with the request to save the current procedure for VAT refunds to exporters of logs, as “Russian Forestry News”...

WhatWood: Reduction of roundwood customs duties increased hardwood exports from Russia

Following the results of the first half-year of 2013, the volume of roundwood export from Russia increased by 3.3% compared to the first half of 2012 up to 8.4 million m3 (excluding the countries of Customs Union, e.g....

WhatWood analysts: Lumber exports from Russia in the first half-year of 2013 grew 6%

Lumber export from Russia in the first half-year of 2013 amounted to 9.93 million m3, which is 6% higher year-on-year. Export value increased by 4% to reach $1.71 billion, as analysts of WhatWood News & Analytics reported. China...

Global Trends Review, June 24-30, 2013: pellet trade growing but causing controversies; companies choose various strategies to tackle weak demand and wood shortage

600 representatives of the Austrian paper industry took part in a demonstration in Klagenfurt, says Holzkurier quoting orf.at. The protest in the capital of Austria’s southern province of Carinthia was directed against the planned biomass plant in particular...