Brazil tropical sawn timber exports fall 12.6%

Brazilian exports of tropical sawn timber declined 12.6% to 45,100m³ in October, compared to a year ago.

The International Tropical Timber Organisation’s latest market report says the sawn timber exports were worth US$21.6m, a 17.6% fall in value.

Tropical plywood shipments from Brazil also declined – plunging 39% to 6,900m³. In value terms, the drop was 40% to US$3.9m.

But pine sawn timber export values rose 28% during the month to US$12.9m, with volumes also rising 4.8% to 57,000m3.

In total, exports of all Brazilian timber products grew by 6.7% to US$213m during the month.