In the 1H, Japan's timber imports decreased by 17.9%: Only 4.8 million m³ made their way to the insular state. In comparison to the same period last year, lumber imports decreased by 11.6% to a total of 3.1 million m³, and log wood imports even shrank by 21.1% to 950,000 m³. Almost all supplying countries cut back their deliveries to Japan, as the Japan Lumber Journal reports. North America shipped 730,000 m³ across the Pacific (-26.3%), and European lumber imports declined by 19.2%. Chile was the only country to expand their lumber deliveries to Japan (+9.4%, 119,489 m³). When it comes to log wood, Africa was the only supplier who increased log wood imports to their Asian customer (+22.5%, 1125 m³).
Until the end of the third quarter, China reduced its purchases of German beech logs by 10% year on year. Total imports decreased by 1% to 548,500 m³.
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From January to September, China imported a much smaller overall volume of oak logs than in the same period last year. This decrease is mainly due to one of the Top 10 supplying countries.
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In the first three quarters, China imported a smaller overall volume of softwood logs than last year. In fact, imports reached the lowest level since the Holzkurier’s records began in 2017.
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From January to August, Germany saw its beech log exports grow by a marked 13%. This increase is not due to purchases by main buyer China, though, but to additional volumes being exported to...
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