Some Chinese merchants said that this year, due to the short-term factors such as the downturn in the property market, the demand for the European birch market is weak, coupled with the continuous downward adjustment of the price of Russian birch which impacts the European birch.  This results in a more bleak market in the European birch market. In terms of price, the merchants indicated that they were affected by the relatively high import cost.  Even with the impact of Russian birch, the price of European birch remained stable.  At present, the European ...