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African tropical timber: Asian buyers slowly returning; prices for EU market up

It has been reported that buyers for the Chinese and other Asian markets are slowly returning. The current emphasis is [...]

August 5, 2020

West African tropical timber exports driven down by pandemic

The rapid spread of the coronavirus has adversely affected West Africa’s export markets, imports, foreign investment, tourism and remittances [...]

July 20, 2020

No strong COVID-19 signs in EU tropical timber import data

EU27 (i.e. excluding the UK) tropical timber product imports continued to defy expectations of COVID-19 driven collapse in [...]

July 17, 2020

Demand for African tropical timber weakens in Europe

The impact of pandemic control measures have hit West African timber producers across the region hard, coming as it has [...]

June 25, 2020

About 40% of Chinese factories in Gabon have ceased production

It is estimated that about 40% of Gabon’s Chinese factories have ceased production. In some cases, the plywood plants [...]

June 23, 2020

Moody’s: coronavirus pandemic, oversupply to limit price recovery in the global forest products industry

The coronavirus pandemic is pressuring global demand and the oversupply across many regions will either limit price recovery or drive [...]

June 22, 2020

UK tropical wood trade succumbs to pandemic impact

The value of UK imports of tropical wood products was US$360 million in the first four months of 2020 [...]

June 18, 2020

Global lumber producers see surprising improvement in profitability in early 2020

The US South and British Columbia have historically been the lowest-cost lumber-producing regions of North America. However, in [...]

June 11, 2020

No pandemic impact in March tropical timber trade data

The lack of any strong COVID signal in the tropical timber trade data to the end of March is more [...]

June 5, 2020

Tropical market developments in West Africa seem a distant dream

It is becoming increasingly difficult to get trade news from West Africa. Communication channels have not been affected by pandemic [...]

June 5, 2020

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