Actualités de la filière bois de Chine

The weekly figure counts pulp in Shanghai Futures Exchange warehouses that can be delivered against SHFE bleached softwood kraft pulp futures.

Vietnam remained South Korea’s largest supplier as its share fell 7.6 pp; China’s shipments rose 25% and Vietnam’s fell 25%

Building materials prices fell 3.8% year over year in August.

China had the largest increase at 9.1%, while Indonesia recorded the steepest decline at 33%

United States remained the largest buyer as its share fell 9.1 pp; Thailand's share rose 4.9 pp.

Japanese corporate goods prices, Slovenian roundwood purchases, Swedish felling notifications, Chinese producer prices and U.S. import prices are scheduled.

Corrugated paper edges up 0.2% on the previous ten days, natural rubber rises 1.3%

The weekly figure counts pulp in Shanghai Futures Exchange warehouses that can be delivered against SHFE bleached softwood kraft pulp futures.

Commerce must exclude Jiangyang Wood and Dehua TB from the hardwood plywood antidumping order and cannot reopen the record to calculate new rates.

South Korea remained the largest buyer as its share rose 1 pp; Peru's purchases rose 1.5-fold and U.S. shipments fell 62%.

China stayed the largest destination as its share fell 4.2 pp; Turkey's purchases rose more than twofold and Germany's fell 9.9%.

China took 62% of Chile's wood pulp exports, United Arab Emirates shipments rose more than threefold and Japan's fell 13%.

Canada became the largest supplier with a 25.0% share by value; the top five countries accounted for 74.5% of import value.

Sinowolf operates two manufacturing sites with 1 billion metres annual edge banding capacity.

Construction activity reached 50.3 as factory-gate and input price subindexes rose.

The Chinese list covers hardwood and softwood lumber, logs, OSB, fiberboard, plywood and flooring, while tariff reductions still require domestic procedures.

Profits across all industrial enterprises rose 15.7% over the same period.

China manufacturing PMI arrives Wednesday as U.S. construction spending is due Thursday.

U.S. hardwood log exports to China reached 380.6 thousand m3 worth $285 million in January-August 2026, exceeding full-year 2025 shipments.

The new-construction starts lagged a year earlier by 30.5%.

Regional constraints, limited plantation expansion and infrastructure barriers will restrict how much additional softwood roundwood reaches markets.

Wood-processing prices edged down 0.1% month over month in August.

Thailand gained 12 percentage points of South Korea's hardwood chips imports; South Korea imported 307 thousand tonnes.

Latvia lost 9 percentage points of Sweden's softwood log imports; Sweden imported 1.4 million m3.

Sweden imported 1.4 million m3 in Q2 as Latvia lost 9 percentage points of Sweden's imports.

New orders and output moved above 50 as construction activity slipped.

Revenue and costs fell 14.6% and 14.3%, respectively, in January-July 2026.

The annual decline narrowed from 1.9% in June to 1.7% in July.

Price for particleboard exported from China increased 10%.

The USITC made affirmative injury determinations on hardwood and decorative plywood from China, Indonesia and Vietnam, clearing the way for antidumping and countervailing duty orders.

The companies remain in the China-wide entity, with the rate applying to reviewed entries and future cash deposits.

Gains in China, Taiwan, Mexico, Pakistan, South Korea and Hong Kong offset only about 4% of the U.S. volume decline.

Lower wood and fixed costs partly offset weaker pulp and paperboard prices, while maintenance shutdowns will reduce third-quarter earnings.

Manufacturing, services and construction activity indexes all declined from June.

Aggregate profit among above-designated-size enterprises in the category fell to 5.17 billion yuan, while profit across all covered industrial enterprises rose 18.7%.

The U.S. Department of Commerce retained the 187.27% dumping margin, while permanent antidumping and countervailing duty orders will depend on a final U.S. injury ruling.

The machine will include forming-section dewatering, compact dryer geometry and two winders plus automation and lifecycle support, with start-up scheduled for fall 2027.

Guangdong Guanhao High-Tech faces a proposed 28.8% rate, while all other Chinese companies face 70.5%.

Latin America remains a low‑cost source at about 95 million m3 annually while Oceania’s supply may fall by roughly three million m3 by 2035.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection will keep collecting cash deposits on covered Chinese wood mouldings and millwork imports.

Furniture makers also recorded declines, even as overall industrial earnings grew and paper producers gained.

A strong ruble, weaker demand in China and rail-logistics bottlenecks are the main factors behind the projected decline.

The primary woodworking machinery sector has been hit harder by the downturn than the secondary segment that supplies machinery for further processing.

India took 73% of shipments.

Wood processing, pulp, paper and building material prices stayed below year-earlier levels, while overall industrial producer prices rose on higher raw material and mining costs.

Funding will support low-carbon wood technologies, mass timber housing, Indigenous participation and export diversification while ministers review Task Force recommendations

Japan and the United States were the largest destinations, accounting for about 25% and 23% of volume respectively.

China's construction crisis and higher logistics costs have cut shipments, while Russia's downgraded economic outlook limits domestic absorption of growing supply.

The official manufacturing purchasing managers index stood at 50.0 in May, down 0.3 points from April, while the composite PMI output index rose to 50.5.

New Zealand log export volumes rise seasonally after strong March harvesting conditions.

The U.S. posts the steepest decline among the largest softwood lumber import markets, followed by Germany and China, while supplier volumes fall most for Canada, Russia, and Austria.

Wood processing, furniture manufacturing and construction-linked non-metal mineral products record profit declines even as industrial profits and margins increase.

Japan became the largest destination after U.S. duties hit Indonesia’s shipments.

Completed construction floor space falls 40% from March, while floor area under development rises to 5,451 million m2.

Expedited first five-year review finds dumping would likely continue if the order was revoked, with weighted-average dumping margins up to 231.60% for imports from China.

New construction increases 2.6-fold from February but remains 17% lower year-on-year.

Press concept eliminates open draw threading to improve web runnability and reduce mechanical stress on components

Preliminary results cover 2024 and include partial rescissions for withdrawn requests and no-shipment firms.