Forestry sector exports recovering in Brazail

Between January and October last year Brazil’s pulp exports grew by almost 3% year on year reaching about 16 million tonnes. Exports of woodbased panels increased around 30% to 1.1 million cubic metres while paper exports increased modestly to 1.7 million tonnes.

Due to this positive performance export revenue exceeded US$7 billion in the first 10 months of this year, a 10.9% growth over the same period of 2016.

China remains the main market for Brazilian pulp (a 40% share) generating earnings of some US$2 billion followed by European countries (a 31% share) at a little over US$1.6 billion.

Latin American countries were the main markets for the paper and woodbased panel segments in the first ten months of the year with export revenues above US$1.0 billion and US$126 million (+16.7%), respectively.