China Timber Supply Outlook

As the world’s largest importer of logs and woodfiber, China’s search for timber has a global impact. See how the domestic and imported timber supply base will evolve with the 6th edition of this Fastmarkets RISI Special Study.

The China Timber Supply Outlook shows you:

China’s Timber Supply Deficit

• • Historical trends in China’s need for imported woodfiber, in the form of logs, lumber, wood panels, woodchips and pulp
  • Drivers of demand for wood products and pulp
  • Analysis and forecast of timber supply deficit to 2022 and 2027
• Price Trends for Imports
  
  • Historical average prices for imports of softwood and hardwood logs, softwood and hardwood lumber, woodchips and wood pulp
• Analysis of China’s Imported Woodfiber Supply Chain
  
  • Overview of China’s total forest products trade, including trends in trade balance by product group
  • Import volumes by supplying countries of all key products, with at least ten-year history
  • Includes softwood and hardwood logs, softwood and hardwood lumber, wood panels (plywood, MDF, particleboard, and OSB), and wood pulp
  • Exports from China of wood panels, wooden furniture and flooring

• Review of China’s Domestic Forest Resources
  
  • Outlook for domestic timber harvest trends, which will dictate continued reliance on imported timber and related products

Who uses the China Timber Supply Outlook?

Timberland Investors and Plantation Owners

• Review major trends and understand expected growth in the market driving forest products and wood fiber trade globally.

Trading Companies

• Plan for future trade with in-depth background on where China’s future imports will come from.

Integrated Forest Products Producers

• Understand how demand has changed for pulp and wood products over the last few years, and areas where demand is expected to grow.