Swedish Minister for Trade Ewa Björling
met representatives of the Swedish forest industry on Wednesday to
discuss and identify potential measures and strategies with which to
counter Russian timber tariffs that were raised by 50 per cent on 1
April.
"The latest rise was a...
Starting from the forest fire season, about 5,000
wildfires have been registered in Russia. According to the Federal
Forestry Agency (Rosleskhoz), 4,852 fires were registered as of 21
April, starting from the beginning of the fire season. Actually, this
is seven times more that last...
The cut in the number of border customs processing points by Russian officials has not yet slowed the import of raw timber. In
northern parts of the country, the paperwork has to be taken hundreds
of kilometres for processing, but for the time being shipments
themselves still following...
A Russian log export tax is helping blunt the impact of the U.S.
lumber market collapse for coastal forest company TimberWest Forest.TimberWest
is the province's No. 1 log exporter. But with U.S. demand and prices
in the tank, the company is letting its trees continue to grow rather
than...
