Even if China increases imports from Europe and New Zealand, there will be a gap of of 8.66 million cubic meters of logs by 2022.  Chinese timber imports from Australia were banned at the end of 2020 and Russia also announced that it will ban log exports in 2022. Taking into account that in 2020, 4.565 million cubic meters of logs were imported from Australia and 6.341 million cubic meters of logs from Russia in 2020 there is a significant supply problem of softwood logs in China.  Before 2020, Chinese imports of softwood ...