The net importers are characterized by being leading global manufacturing centers. Overall, it’s worthwhile dividing the top-10 into two groups: net exporters (Canada, Russia, Austria, Sweden, Poland, Indonesia and Finland) and net importers (China, Germany and the U.S.A.). While firms in each of these countries export a range of wood products, a certain amount of specialization can be detected by looking at the largest wood export from each country: softwood lumber is the dominant export in most of these countries, while panels are the largest share from China and Indonesia, fibreboard from Germany, and joinery products from Poland. Finland has the highest reliance on wood exports, at 3.8% of their total exports. At 2.2%, Canada’s export mix is much more reliant on wood products than China, the U.S. One measure of how important solid wood trade is to countries’ exports is what percentage wood products make up of a country’s total exports. In 2012, Canada was the second largest exporter of wood products in the world, behind China, ahead of Germany and the U.S.A. Top-10 exporting countries of wood products (code 44 of the Harmonized System of the World Customs Organization) (2012) Together, they accounted for 65% of total wood exports in 2012. The table below lists the top-10 wood product exporters.
Lumber exporter update#
We periodically like to provide an update on how Canada’s wood product exports stack up next to other countries, both in terms of relative size, but also type and significance.
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