Glulam timber

Tropical timber

Subprogramme 7

Note Paper, paperboard and woodpulp in m.t. others in m3.

Strong housing markets, providing demand for 75 of structural wood products, drove wood product prices higher in 2004.

The main exports are cotton, rubber, timber, coffee, and sisal.

Both of the forestry operations supply forest products for export (Kyodo News Agency, 2005).

From mid 2005, unprocessed beetle killed timber was not exported out of the province.

The lifting of the ban was due to the high demand for timber for rehabilitation and reconstruction activities.

The reviving nonresidential construction market also helped increase glulam demand (figure 10.3.1).

If I allow you to have a woodworking shop, won t you want to keep my wood, right?

For instance, an international supermarket chain in Austria now sells its wood products mostly labelled by PEFC.

The next largest segment is the nonresidential building construction market, with 26 of glulam demand.

In fact, GDP growth was 3.3 percent in 1991, 5.6 percent in 1992, and an estimated 3.7 percent in 1993.

The term covers logs, sawnwood, veneer sheets, panelwood and engineered structural wood and plywood and furniture .

Most recently, the Canadian national scheme, CSA, was endorsed, which means in practice that products from its 63.7 million hectares of certified forest area can be sold with reference to PEFC as well.

As a result, internal demand for a wide range of products, including demand for a number of types of wood and wood products, is growing rapidly.

Under this law, German timber companies will be obliged to certify that the timber they import or use was procured legally.

The Russian Ministry of Natural Resources has declared its objective to certify the entire forest area and to start supplying only certified timber to the western market by 2007.

However, the gains in African prices were not solely the result of currency movements shortages in supply of certain species also drove up prices.

Because of domestic harvesting restrictions in the wake of flooding a few years back, China relies on imported timber.

European consumers continued showing a resurgence of interest in red and darker brown species for furniture manufacture in 2004, and this was reflected in higher prices for such woods.

Within a month of the adoption of the plan, new environmental taxes on cars, gasoline, and wood products were imposed China was using market based mechanisms to address its and the world s environmental problems.

Wood products harvested from sustainably managed forests can make a significant contribution to sustainable development and countries should promote and encourage the use of wood products rather than non renewable products.

Wooden houses have remained popular, with an 87 share of new single family houses, so they continue to generate healthy demand for wood products.

Timber started to be sold at the prices they could managed to get, and prices fall a lot, recalls Abraham González, the communal land s forestry director. It was necessary to unite to standardize the prices for the wood.

The furniture sector uses considerable sawnwood, wood based panels, hardwood components and profiled wood hence, the sector creates demand for primary processed wood products.

Demand for EWPs, and subsequently for their primary processed raw materials, is intrinsically linked to housing construction in North America, as is the case with VAWPs.

Like logs, Asian sawnwood became more competitive in the EU compared with African timbers, due to the strong euro in 2004.

Most illegal material is consumed domestically and does not enter international trade, although processed products from illegally sourced timber are exported to both Europe and North America.

These services regulate the production of ecosystem goods, the natural products harvested or used by humans such as wild fruit and nuts, forage, timber, game, natural fibres, medicines and so on.

This chapter provides details on trends in trade and prices of major primary tropical timber products by all 60 ITTO members (table 11.1.1) (for trends in secondary products, see chapter 10).

Prices of many tropical timber products were affected by disruptions to trade due to civil unrest, CITES listings of substitute species, currency fluctuations, export bans and import regulations and restrictions.

In 2004, despite factors limiting supply, tropical timber prices did not rise significantly (except for plywood), largely because the main market for tropical sawnwood, the EU, was weak.

The impacts of such a scheme on demand, supply and prices of plywood and other tropical timber products is still uncertain, but it is clear that the existence of increasing quantities of low cost Chinese plywood in the EU and other markets will have a negative influence on prices.