{"id":77599,"date":"2019-06-13T13:15:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T13:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tin.happy-projects.ro\/chinese-companies-seeking-alternatives-us-timber\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T08:50:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:50:57","slug":"chinese-companies-seeking-alternatives-us-timber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timberindustrynews.com\/ro\/chinese-companies-seeking-alternatives-us-timber\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese companies seeking alternatives to US timber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>At present, Chinese companies have been able to absorb the increased tariff levels on imported US timber raw materials but if these are raised further then their businesses will be at risk.\u00a0To avoid this Chinese companies have started to look for alternative raw material sources and substitutes for US logs and sawnwood.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to China Customs data imports from the US were mainly softwood logs such as douglas fir, spruce and fir but close examination shows there is no real price advantage over other sources. This is leading importers to look at douglas fir from Canada and more softwoods from New Zealand as well as spruce and fir from Russia.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s imports of douglas fir from the US, Canada and New Zealand were 98,000, 480, 000 and 380,000 cubic metres in 2017 respectively. The average price for douglas fir from the US was the highest at US$186 per cubic metre, from Canada US$172 per cubic metre and from New Zealand US$138 per cubic metre.<\/p>\n<p>China imports spruce and fir are mainly from Russia, US and Canada and amounted to 3,080,000, 790,000 and 780,000 cubic metres in 2017 respectively. Smaller volumes came from Estonia, France and Denmark. The average price for imported spruce and fir from the US was US$184 per cubic metre, from Canada US$161 per cubic metre, and from Russia US$124 per cubic metre.<\/p>\n<p>China also imports sawn hardwood from the US such as oak (1.32 million cubic metres), other US hardwoods (570,000 cubic metres), ash (340,000 cubic metres) and cherry (190,000 cubic metres).<\/p>\n<p>Analysts suggest that most of sawn hardwood from the US can be replaced by sawn hardwood from Canada, Russia and European member states.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At present, Chinese companies have been able to absorb the increased tariff levels on imported US timber raw materials but if these are raised further then their businesses will be at risk.\u00a0To avoid this Chinese companies have started to look &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timberindustrynews.com\/ro\/chinese-companies-seeking-alternatives-us-timber\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4716,4715,4714],"tags":[3254,3248,3264,3258,3252,3429],"class_list":["post-77599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-trends","category-market-analysis","category-wood-industry-prices","tag-china","tag-imports","tag-timber","tag-trade-war","tag-us","tag-wood-products","topic-forestry","topic-sawmilling","topic-wood-construction","topic-wood-furniture","topic-wood-based-panels","topic-woodworking-machinery","area-china","area-north-america"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - 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