Vietnam’s forestry exports in the January-August period reached US$7.08 billion, up 18.6% over the same period of 2018, with timber and timber products bringing in US$6.66 billion.  Key destinations for Vietnamese forestry products stayed the same, including the US, Japan, the EU, China and the Republic of Korea, whose combined imports accounted for 80% of Vietnam’s total shipments.  Exports to the US were primarily interior wood products, construction wood and plywood, while Japan mainly imported wood chips, interior wood products, construction wood and plywood.  In the ...