Authors: ​Cherian Thomas and Thomas R. Waggener ​SummaryThis report is one of a series of “Country-Market Profile Reports” undertaken in an effort to compile and make available current information about economic conditions, trade in forest products, and the forestry situation in important producer and consumer nations.  This information is drawn from many published sources and statistical […]

Authors: ​Gerard F. Schreuder, and Richard P. Vlosky ​IntroductionForest products are an important component of Taiwan’s international trade mix comprising the fifth largest commodity group exported in 1984 with a value of $1.5 billion (EIU Annual Supplement, 2985), or 4.2% of the country’s foreign exchange earnings (Asian Timber, Nov. 1985).   This is an increase of over […]

Authors: ​Gerard F. Schreuder, Richard P. Vlosky and Yeo Chang Youn ​IntroductionHistorically, South Korea has played a key role in global forest products trade.  In the seventies for example, it was one of the world’s greatest producers of plywood.  Presently however, recent events have compromised this position.  One of these has been the ban of log […]

Authors: ​Gerard F. Schreuder and Erik T. Anderson ​SummaryInitial world trade in pulpwood had been confined to trade in pulp logs, which for the most part were regional flows such as between European and Scandinavian countries.  However, beginning in the early 1960s a market began to develop for pulpwood, not in the round wood form but […]