Russia: lumber export value 17.8% up in Jan-Apr 2018

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In January-May 2018, Russia increased its sawn timber exports, both in value and in volume terms, indicate the statistics published by the Russian Federal Customs Office.

Thus, during the first five months of the current year Russia exported 7.616 million tonnes of sawn timber. That is 3.4% more than during the respective period of the last year.

The total value of the exported Russian sawn timber increased as well. In January-May it came up to $1.805 billion having gone up by 17.8%.

In their turn, Russian log exports went down in volume terms, but increased in value terms.

In January-May 2018, the Russian log exports came up to 7.313 million m3, having gone down by 6.2% year-on-year.

The total value of the Russian logs exported in January-May 2018 came up to $636 million, that is 5.9% more than during the respective period of 2017.

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