Shipments to China totalled $28.9 million in the first half of the year a fall of 16%. However, in the same period China accounted for 36% of total timber exports.
After China, the significant markets were Mexico ($15.5 million) and the US ($13.1 million) but purchases of Peru’s wood products by both Mexico and the US declined. Peru’s wood product exports to Mexico dropped 27%.
Other markets included France, Dominican Republic, Belgium, Denmark, Australia, Ecuador, Panama, Chile, Republic of Korea, Bolivia, Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Sweden, Spain, Italy, amongst a total of 55 export destinations for wood products.