The next raise in the export duty on Russian lumber to Finland has been postponed at least until the autumn of 2009, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced Tuesday after a meeting with Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen. Most in the Russian forest industry are pleased with that...
imber revenues are down almost 50%, and it is going to take some creative thinking to revive the slumping forestry industry, B.C.'s forest minister says.Forestry revenues normally pour more than $1 billion into the government's pocket from taxes and fees, but this year just $652 million in...
Russia won't increase export duties on timber in the next nine to twelve months. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced the decision after negotiations with his Finnish counterpart on Wednesday. But other issues like the construction of the Nord Stream pipeline were not that easy to agree...
A new standard for carbon trading will help link forestry and
agriculture projects into a million-dollar market to help fight global
warming, backers said on Tuesday.
Under rules set by the Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS), projects
such as reducing the rate of tropical...
Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin made the following sensational statement at a meeting with his counterpart of Finland Matti Vanhanen held yesterday: Russia is ready to postpone the introduction of sharply increased export duties on timber raw materials, which was...
The Swedish forest industry foresees
weak demand for saw timber, equilibrium between supply and demand for
pulpwood and strong demand for energy wood.
Intermediate annual reports for the first nine months of the year are
mostly sad reading. The sawmill industry is in the worst situation...
In Finland wood is expected to increase as construction material when the global financial crisis is eventually abating.
Already
before the crisis construction in Europe did not meet demand. Strong
growth is expected when the business cycle takes an upward turn. The...
The negative period that has been
characterizing the industry since the beginning of the year — after
three years of constant growth — has accelerated during the third
quarter due to the global financial and economic crisis, the actual
relevance of which has been perceived since September...
