Price for logs imported to China upped 1.6%.
Price for sawlog exported from Germany to China decreased slightly 0.8%.
Price for softwood logs imported to China slipped 3%.
Price for lumber exported from New Zealand lost 15%.
Price for logs exported from New Zealand rose 1.3%.
Price for lumber exported from Russia to Kazakhstan fell marginally 0.5%.
Weak lumber demand and price pressure in China, a stronger ruble, and high interest costs drove asset impairments, capacity curtailments, and lower fourth-quarter sales.
New estimates show lumber demand is more sensitive to housing starts than to GDP per capita or prices, and the revised setup produces lower long-run demand.
Price for wood chips imported to the EU contracted 26%.
Price for bleached kraft pulp exported from the EU upped 4%.
Price for lumber exported from Latvia upped 5%.
Price for lumber exported from the EU to United Arab Emirates slipped 1.3%.
Imports of wood pellets to Poland changed only 0.0%.
New 60,000-tonne plant marks company's second largest in Asia Pacific and first large-scale U.S. paper chemicals investment in Guangxi.
New construction increases 2.6-fold from February but remains 17% lower year-on-year.
Standing sales prices for sawlogs and pulpwood increased, while industrial roundwood purchases from private forests remained below year-earlier and five-year levels.