The United States is considering reducing import duties on Chinese products
The United States is considering at least partial loosening of import duties on Chinese products to accelerate trade negotiations. [...]
January 30, 2019
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2018 was a bad year for Scandinavian sawmills’ softwood lumber exports to China
After years of steady growth, the European softwood lumber exports to China had a bad year in 2018 [...]
January 23, 2019
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Investigation reveals how illegally harvested timber is ‘greenwashed’ in China
An investigation conducted by Sixth Tone, a group of Chinese researchers and journalists linked to the Shanghai United Media Group [...]
January 23, 2019
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China’s economic growth falls to a three-decade low in 2018
As a result of the tariff dispute with the Trump administration, China's economic growth fell to a three-decade [...]
January 22, 2019
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China and the European countries cooperate to promote wood products trade through railway express
A China-Europe Wood Industry Cooperation Summit was recently hosted by the China National Forest Products Industry Association (CNFPIA). A [...]
January 22, 2019
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China’s forestry sector output reached US$1.1 trillion in 2018
China's forestry sector output reached 7.33 trillion yuan (about 1.1 trillion U.S. dollars) in 2018, 2 [...]
January 21, 2019
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Global lumber market affected by slowing Chinese economy and trade disputes
As a result of the Chinese economy going down and the trade disputes the country has with the U.S [...]
January 21, 2019
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ISO publishes chain of custody standard for wood products
ISO (the International Organization for Standardization) has published a new, voluntary standard for chain of custody (CoC) of wood and [...]
January 21, 2019
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Weaker demand for high value ‘redwoods’ in China
Many timber suppliers in the Shanghai Furen timber market are complaining that demand for timber for furniture making has suddenly [...]
January 21, 2019
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Fall in EU wood furniture imports from China in 2018
After making gains in 2017, EU wood furniture imports from China, by far the largest external supplier, fell 5% to [...]
January 18, 2019
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