{"id":80018,"date":"2020-11-09T09:10:58","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T09:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tin.happy-projects.ro\/chinas-sawnwood-imports-dropped-sharply-h1-2020\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T17:20:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T17:20:44","slug":"chinas-sawnwood-imports-dropped-sharply-h1-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timberindustrynews.com\/ro\/chinas-sawnwood-imports-dropped-sharply-h1-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s sawnwood imports dropped sharply in H1\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><em>According to China Customs data, China imported 17 million cubic metres of sawnwood in the first half of 2020, a decline of 8% compared with the same period in 2019, at a value of US$3.7 billion (a drop of 17%, year-on-year).<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The average price of imported sawnwood was US$217 per cubic metre, down by 7% over the same period in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timberindustrynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Chin-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24853 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/timberindustrynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Chin-4-300x178.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/timberindustrynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Chin-4-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/timberindustrynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Chin-4.jpg 386w\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" \/><\/a>Sawn softwood imports fell by 10% in the first six months of 2020, to 12.7 million cubic metres, which was 75% of the total volume of imported sawnwood. The average price of imported sawn softwood was US$171 per cubic metre, down by 6% over the same period in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Sawn hardwood imports fell by 9% to 4.3 million cubic metres in the same period, with volumes falling from Thailand by 7%, from the United States by 15% and from the Russian Federation by 34%. The average price of imported sawn hardwoods in the first half of 2020 was US$358 per cubic metre, down by 9% over the same period in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Russian Federation the major sawn softwood supplier to China<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Russian Federation was the main sawn softwood supplier to China in the first half of 2020,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/timberindustrynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Chin2-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24854 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/timberindustrynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Chin2-4-300x191.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/timberindustrynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Chin2-4-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/timberindustrynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Chin2-4.jpg 355w\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" \/><\/a>despite a fall in volume of 12%, to 7.63 million cubic metres, which was 60% of the national total. Meanwhile, China\u2019s sawn softwood imports surged from Belarus (up by 147%), Sweden (+50%), Germany (+47%) and Ukraine (25%).<\/p>\n<p>Average prices dropped for almost all sawn softwood suppliers in the first six months of 2020 \u2013 including by 28% from the United States, by 22% from Canada and by 20% from Sweden. In contrast, average prices for imported sawn softwood rose by 2% from the Russian Federation.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to China Customs data, China imported 17 million cubic metres of sawnwood in the first half of 2020, a decline of 8% compared with the same period in 2019, at a value of US$3.7 billion (a drop of 17%, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timberindustrynews.com\/ro\/chinas-sawnwood-imports-dropped-sharply-h1-2020\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62282,"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":[3254,3248,3462],"class_list":["post-80018","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-sawnwood"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - 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