Malaysia continues to be the largest supplier of plywood to Japan but March deliveries were down from a month earlier (-9%) extending the downward trend which began in Janauary.
May 26, 2015. /Lesprom Network/.
The volume of
plywood imports from Indonesia into Japan move in a narrow range such that
since November last year imports have been stuck at around 66,000 cubic metres
per month. March imports from Indonesia just bucked the
trend coming in at 68,000 cubic metres, ITTO reported.
Malaysia continues to be the
largest supplier of plywood to Japan but March
deliveries were down from a month earlier (-9%) extending the downward trend
which began in Janauary.
For the past 12 months supplies of plywood from China into the Japanese market have stood at about half that from Indonesia and a quarter of that from Malaysia. This pattern was abruptly broken in March when Japan’s plywood imports from China plummeted by around 50%.
