Russia: lumber export value 19% up in Jan-Apr 2018

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In January-April 2018, Russia increased its sawn timber exports, both in value and in volume terms, indicate the statistics published by the Russian Federal Customs Office.

Thus, during the first four months of the current year Russia exported 5.749 million tonnes of sawn timber. That is 3.2% more than during the respective period of the last year.

The total value of the exported Russian sawn timber increased as well. In January-April it came up to $1.378 billion having gone up by 19%.

In their turn, Russian log exports went down in volume terms, but increased in value terms. In January-April 2018, the Russian log exports came up to 5.78 million m3, having gone down by 7.4% year-on-year.

The total value of the Russian logs exported in January-April 2018 came up to $511.2 million, that is 6.5% more than during the respective period of 2017.

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