NZ logs are popular with Chinese furniture manufacturers

Thursday 24 Apr 2025

 
Picking up on last week’s log market update from the Forest360 team, it’s promising to see New Zealand radiata pine is being used by Chinese furniture products, which have a strong export focus. Even better is the news they export to 200 countries and (given the tariff games) less than a third of those exports are to the USA.

In the latest Tropical Timber Market Report, China Customs has reported wooden furniture exports in 2024 rose 2% to US$24.57 billion year-on-year. The value of China's furniture exports to the top 5 countries, the US, the UK, Australia, Japan and South Korea, earned more than US$12 Billion and accounted for just 52% of the national total.

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Source: ITTO


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