Rising Japanese wood products exports

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Japan's wood products export this year is increasing. During January and June this year, log export volume was 479,141 cbms, 51.2% more than the same period of last year and lumber export was 62,557 cbms, 58.6% more. China is the largest buyer of Japanese logs and Philippines becomes one of major lumber buyers.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has set a target of one trillion yen of export of farm, marine and forest products by 2020. For forest products export, a target is 25 billion yen but 2016’s export was 27.4 billion yen, which is more than the target. Next target is to increase export of value added products like plywood and lumber from logs but for this, development of new markets is necessary.

The Ministry allocated some budget to develop new markets and main targets are China, Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam. In particular, it has been working to add Japanese wood species for Chinese wooden building standards to increase Japanese style wooden buildings.

The Japan Wood Products Export Promotion Council is promoting activities of construction of model houses, displaying wooden interior materials of condominiums and participation to exhibitions and holding seminars. Export has started of kiln dries wood products, which have durability and dimensional stability and precut laminated lumber for temple construction.

On September 16, it opened model room of 65 square meters, which displays Japanese tea room with wellknown high grade lumber of cedar from Yoshino and Akita. There is demand for Japanese style relaxing room but in China, price is always priority matter so it is questionable if high priced Japanese products are selected easily.

Japanese cypress is very popular in Korea as it is believed to have sterilizing power so cypress furniture and interior materials are in high demand. Antenna shop was opened in last August in Seoul, where cypress bed and interior materials are displayed and sold. Export of Japanese style house to Korea is more than China and export of precut materials by Japanese builders is increasing.

Taiwan shows interest to Japanese wood products like plywood, LVL and CLT. Vietnam market is unknown yet but there are many furniture manufacturers exporting finished products to Europe so demand of furniture materials may be one of major business. For the U.S.A., Japanese cedar lumber is exported to substitute short supplied Western red cedar for fencing.

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