European pulpmills imported much less Eucalyptus chips from Latin America during 2012, mainly because Spanish pulp mills reduced their reliance on relatively costly wood fiber from Uruguay

to the North American Wood Fiber Review. High wood fiber inventories, plenty of sawmill chips and pulplogs, and maintenance shutdowns by a number of pulp mills were the main reasons wood chip prices fell by

Vietnam has taken over Australia as the world’s largest supplier of wood chips to pulp mills in Asia. In 2011, Vietnam exported 5.4 million tons, triple that in 2007, as reported

. For Poland, Belarus is becoming an interesting market of energy wood. The imports of hardwood chips also grew with 130% (75,008 tons in 2011 and 172,406 tons in 2012

In 2007, China imported wood chips from only three countries: Vietnam, Indonesia and Australia, who together shipped 1.1 million tons throughout the year

countries in Europe, as reported in the Wood Resource Quarterly. In the 3Q, wood chip prices in Western Canada increased again due to their formulaic tie

More than 80 million tons of wood chips, valued at almost ten billion US dollars, are traded annually in the open market worldwide and the shipment volumes are increasing

The pulp industry from Spain and Portugal decided in 2012 to rely more on the domestic sources of wood fiber rather than on imports. The main reasons are the relatively costly wood fiber from Latin America and the fact that pulp mills have paid less for pulp logs in

Australia, the world largest exporter of wood chips, reduced shipments by 28% during the first half of 2009. The biggest decline was that of softwood and hardwood chips to Japan, which were down 31% and 36

Chinese hardwood chip imports will double from 6.3 million Bone Dry Metric Tons (BDMT) in 2011, to 12.7 million BDMT in 2016. Japan's imports of hardwood chips will drop from 9.9 million BDMT to 8

The international financial crisis in 2009 had a major negative impact on worldwide demand for pulp and paper products. As a result, the consumption of wood chips and

Between 2004 and 2008, the global trade of wood chips increased by 4% per year on average, reaching a record 32 million tons last year. This upward trend was broken in 2009 with trade being down 26

. According to the North American Wood Fiber Review, in 2Q/09, wood chips and pulpwood prices fell between 5 and 8% in the US, with the highest decline in the Northeast

Wood fiber consumption by the Japanese pulp industry reached a record high in 2008. Over 72 percent of the consumed wood chips were imported, most from hardwood