Africa: Few new timber orders from China

With the end of the ‘lockdowns’ in China and with the Lunar New Year holidays over producers had anticipated an increase in orders for the Chinese market, this has yet to materialize. Now producers are looking ahead to the end of February or even March before they expected demand to improve. In Cameroon producers are trying to adjust to the high export duties along with handling the administrative requirements under the recently imposed CITES regulations on a range of species including khaya and doussie, pachyloba and padouk. At the moment importers are showing no interest in absorbing some ...