France
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France lumber price trends: A snapshot of Q4 2024
The French lumber market has seen varied price trends across different categories and species of wood in the fourth quarter of 2024. Notably, oak, pine, beech, poplar, and Douglas fir have shown both positive and negative fluctuations compared... Continue reading
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February 27, 2025
France lumber price trends: A snapshot of Q4 2024
The French lumber market has seen varied price trends across different categories and species of wood in the fourth quarter of 2024. Notably, oak, pine, beech, poplar, and Douglas fir have shown both positive and negative fluctuations compared... Continue reading
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September 24, 2019
US-China trade war hits the French oak market: prices for logs at auctions down sharply this year
The euphoria that characterized France's oak market in 2017-2018 is now about to end. This is one of the conclusions of the public sale of Beaune (Côte d'Or) in Burgundy, organized by the French National Forest Office (ONF). The results of the Burgundy auction clearly confirm the tendencies of weakening in demand which already were noticeable at the end of this spring's auctions. It's a already a fact, since the beginning of the year, the market has turned. The slowdown in economic activity in China has had the effect of curbing trade with the outside world. By the end of the first quarter of 2019, the exporters of oak logs found themselves with stacks of containers stuck in ports or with heaps of wood waiting in parks or roadside. But at the same time, oak logs sold in the fall continued to emerge from forests due to the last mild winter. And as the private owners wanted... Continue reading
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April 12, 2017
France: Hardwood trade affected by rising ocean freight costs to Asia
French hardwood trade was mixed during the Q2 of 2017. The French oak keeps on increasing and there is no forecast for reasons to stop.... Continue reading
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March 28, 2023
An investigation denounces illegal traffic of French wood to China
Oak wood from public forests are allegedly illegally exported to China. The online media Disclose investigated for several months the illegal trafficking of wood from French forests, and in particular from the Ardennes, to China.... Continue reading
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May 5, 2015
African plywood affected by slow French market and new tariffs
Trends in EU imports of hardwood plywood from African countries varied widely in 2014. Imports from Gabon, by far the largest African supply country, declined 3% to 40,000 cu.m. A significant proportion of this product is FSC certified derived from large European-owned operations in Gabon. Demand was impeded by slow recovery in France, traditionally the main European market for okoume plywood. EU imports in 2014 were also disrupted by occasional strikes by customs officials at Libreville port in Gabon. Like Malaysia, Gabon's GSP status changed from 1 January 2014 leading to imposition of a 7% tariff on EU imports of hardwood plywood from Gabon. However, under pressure from EU-based plywood manufacturers, Gabon's exports of hardwood veneers to the EU were exempt from the increase in duty. The overall effect of the new tariff regime is to favour EU-based over Gabon-based... Continue reading
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February 27, 2025
France lumber price trends: A snapshot of Q4 2024
The French lumber market has seen varied price trends across different categories and species of wood in the fourth quarter of 2024. Notably, oak, pine, beech, poplar, and Douglas fir have shown both positive and negative fluctuations compared... Continue reading