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· Russia: 90% of timber sales go to China!
· Heihe welcomes the first China-Europe freight train
· China Consumer Association: The number of complaints about furniture products in the first quarter was 6582 pieces, ranking in the top ten!
· Exhibition information
90% of Russian timber sales go to China!
As markets such as India, the Middle East, North Africa and Japan have failed to provide the Russian timber industry with high profits and high output volumes, some Russian timber traders say that it is clearly "meaningless" to have hope in these markets.
Although Japan "follows" the United States and applies a "double standard" for Russian timber, imports from Russia accounted for 13% of its total timber imports in 2023. Such "unabashed" import of Russian wood will inevitably cause dissatisfaction in Europe. The European Sawmill Industry Organisation (EOS) and the Federation of European Woodworking Industries (CEI-Bois) have previously asked the European Commission for Japan to ban imports of Russian wood products, especially wood and plywood products.
On March 11, 2022, the US President's Executive Order 14068 banned some Russian exports to the United States, but the sanctions on timber only imposed a 35% tariff. According to statistics, since the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine dispute, the United States has imported nearly $2 billion (retail value) of lumber from Russian companies.
In a subsequent round of sanctions against hundreds of Russian entities and individuals in February 2024, some commentators argued that the United States should immediately ban Russian products such as wood, pulp and paper. The Biden administration has once again chosen to ignore the issue of banning Russian timber.
However, in late April of this year, the U.S. Treasury Department suddenly announced that it would allow U.S. businesses to continue "energy-related" transactions with major Russian banks such as Alfa Bank and St. Petersburg Bank. According to the document, the term "energy-related" includes natural gas, coal, wood or agricultural products used to make biofuels.
Even so, Russia does not seem to have high hopes for the U.S. market.
Today, Russia may be a special case in the global sawn timber market.
On the one hand, Russia is separated from its traditional markets in Europe; Previous annual sales of timber to the European market reached 5-6 million cubic meters, with trade volume of $1-1.5 billion, equivalent to 12-15% of Russia's total production.
Russia, on the other hand, is dependent on the domestic market and the Chinese market; Together, these two markets account for about 90 percent of all sales in Russia. And that seems to be the outlook for the Russian timber industry in the coming years.
As the inventory of imported sawn timber in China's major ports has declined for six consecutive months, even in January this year, industry insiders in Taicang Port said that the daily sales of sawn timber exceeded the number of new arrivals, indicating that the Chinese market is in short supply. Moreover, in the first quarter, especially in March after the Lunar New Year, the demand for sawn timber in the Chinese market maintained its growth trend and is expected to continue in the second quarter.
Combined with these factors, Russian timber traders believe that there is reason to raise the price of sawn timber to a certain extent, but also increase confidence in the Chinese market.
Heihe welcomes the first China-Europe freight train
Spanning more than 5,000 kilometers and lasting 15 days, Heihe welcomed the first China-Europe train on the evening of May 8. This special train originated from Tomsk Oblast, Russia, is the first China-Europe railway timber train in our province, and also the first China-Europe railway train to arrive since the operation of the "Two countries and Two Parks" cross-border timber industrial park in Heihe Free Trade Zone.
In the Heihe railway freight yard, after the train loaded with more than 20 boxes of veneer wood slowly enters the platform, the stevedores operate the machinery and put the containers neatly. It is reported that the first batch of Tomsk wood a total of 72 teU, the number of 3,000 cubic meters, will be divided into two to three batches of Heihe.
This batch of raw materials will be shipped to Heilongjiang New Silk Road Forest Products Co., LTD., which is one of the 100 major projects in our province - Heihe Free trade Zone "two countries and two parks" cross-border wood industrial park key leading enterprises. The company entered the Heihe Free Trade Zone in 2019, and its main business is wood processing and furniture production. This time, the company signed an annual wood import agreement of 100,000 cubic meters with Russian partners in Tomsk region according to the material demand, and the Russian partner will continue to supply birch veneer for the company, which means that Tomsk - Heihe Central Europe timber train special train or will enter normal operation.
Heilongjiang New Silk Road Forest Products Co., LTD., using Russian veneer production of whole birch aldehyde-free plywood is furniture manufacturing, civil construction and decoration industries of high-end materials, to fill the domestic market supply gap. Yang Zhendong, deputy general manager of the company, said: "In the past, the wood raw material specifications used by enterprises belong to small boards, and in the processing process, it is necessary to go through splicing and other links to produce wood that meets the size requirements." This time, we ordered the medium and long board, reducing the splicing links, which will effectively improve the production capacity and process level, and reduce the production cost."
It is understood that in order to do a good job in the in-depth planning of China-Russia "two countries and two parks" cross-border timber industry, Heihe Free Trade Zone has repeatedly sent people to domestic advanced areas and timber logging areas in Tomsk and Amur regions of Russia to carry out research, and invited the China National Forest Products Academy to conduct feasibility research on the project and plan the cross-border timber industry in Heihe Free Trade Zone. Lay a solid foundation for subsequent work such as project construction, cooperation and investment promotion.
Heihe welcomes the first China-Europe freight train
Spanning more than 5,000 kilometers and lasting 15 days, Heihe welcomed the first China-Europe train on the evening of May 8. This special train originated from Tomsk Oblast, Russia, is the first China-Europe railway timber train in our province, and also the first China-Europe railway train to arrive since the operation of the "Two countries and Two Parks" cross-border timber industrial park in Heihe Free Trade Zone.In the Heihe railway freight yard, after the train loaded with more than 20 boxes of veneer wood slowly enters the platform, the stevedores operate the machinery and put the containers neatly. It is reported that the first batch of Tomsk wood a total of 72 teU, the number of 3,000 cubic meters, will be divided into two to three batches of Heihe.This batch of raw materials will be shipped to Heilongjiang New Silk Road Forest Products Co., LTD., which is one of the 100 major projects in our province - Heihe Free trade Zone "two countries and two parks" cross-border wood industrial park key leading enterprises. The company entered the Heihe Free Trade Zone in 2019, and its main business is wood processing and furniture production. This time, the company signed an annual wood import agreement of 100,000 cubic meters with Russian partners in Tomsk region according to the material demand, and the Russian partner will continue to supply birch veneer for the company, which means that Tomsk - Heihe Central Europe timber train special train or will enter normal operation.Heilongjiang New Silk Road Forest Products Co., LTD., using Russian veneer production of whole birch aldehyde-free plywood is furniture manufacturing, civil construction and decoration industries of high-end materials, to fill the domestic market supply gap. Yang Zhendong, deputy general manager of the company, said: "In the past, the wood raw material specifications used by enterprises belong to small boards, and in the processing process, it is necessary to go through splicing and other links to produce wood that meets the size requirements." This time, we ordered the medium and long board, reducing the splicing links, which will effectively improve the production capacity and process level, and reduce the production cost."It is understood that in order to do a good job in the in-depth planning of China-Russia "two countries and two parks" cross-border timber industry, Heihe Free Trade Zone has repeatedly sent people to domestic advanced areas and timber logging areas in Tomsk and Amur regions of Russia to carry out research, and invited the China National Forest Products Academy to conduct feasibility research on the project and plan the cross-border timber industry in Heihe Free Trade Zone. Lay a solid foundation for subsequent work such as project construction, cooperation and investment promotion.
In the next step, Heihe Free Trade Area will focus on promoting the development of cross-border wood industry and strive to create a large wood industry leading enterprise with an annual output value of more than 1 billion yuan. At the same time, focusing on the concept of green development, we will promote the transformation and upgrading of cross-border wood to the industry, constantly improve the wood processing industrial chain, and inject strong impetus into the economic development of Heihe
China Consumer Association: The number of complaints about furniture products in the first quarter was 6582 pieces, ranking in the top ten!
On May 9, the China Consumers Association released the first quarter of 2024, the national Consumer Association organization accepted complaints. In the first quarter of 2024, the national Consumer Association organization accepted a total of 346,338 consumer complaints, an increase of 13.87%, solved 243,937 cases, the complaint resolution rate of 70.43%, for consumers to recover economic losses of 19.74 million yuan.
In terms of commodity categories, in the first quarter of this year, household electronic appliances, housing and building materials ranked among the top ten complaints. Among them, the number of complaints of household electronics and electrical appliances reached 39,811, which was the largest number of complaints. The proportion of complaints was 11.49 percent, up 1.23 percentage points from the same period last year. In addition, the number of complaints in the housing and building materials category was 5,224, the proportion of complaints was 1.51%, down 1.2 percentage points year-on-year, ranking seventh in the number of complaints.
Exhibition information
The 24th Chengdu Furniture Fair will be held from June 12 to 15
The 24th Chengdu International Furniture Industry Exhibition will be held in Chengdu Century City New International Convention and Exhibition Center from June 12-15, 2024. The exhibition plans nine theme exhibition areas with an exhibition area of more than 100,000 square meters. The exhibition will be led by fashion design as the core, integrate more than 20 years of Chinese home industry development resources, with a global vision and newly constructed channel advantages, unified brand, group development, rooted in Sichuan, serving China, facing the world.
The 16th Suzhou Furniture Fair will be held from June 13 to 16
The 16th Suzhou Furniture Fair 2024 will be held at Suzhou International Expo Center from June 13 to 16. The exhibition area of 100,000 square meters, planning brand furniture exhibition area, boutique suite exhibition area, modern life exhibition area, door and window system exhibition area, the whole house custom exhibition area, etc. The exhibition organizer will continue to strengthen the exhibition positioning of "providing practical value of home business platform" as the core, further upgrade the exhibition functions, and create personalized "precision service" for the upstream and downstream of the home industry chain. Facilitate efficient supply and demand connection.
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