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This chapter focuses on market trends in the major wood products sectors. It discusses market trends and issues affecting consumption in export markets, as well as societal market issues in tropical producer countries.
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There are limitations in the quality of official data for tropical industrial roundwood (and sawnwood) production because many tropical producer countries lack systems to measure both forest and industrial outputs, while many consumer countries are unable or unwilling to distinguish the processing of tropical timber from all timber processing. Production data is often based on estimates, and the dominance of small- and medium-sized enterprises in the tropical wood processing industries means that production figures from such numerous, small-scale operations are likely to be underestimated. Apparent domestic consumption figures are also suspect as they are derived from “production plus imports minus exports.”
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Maplesden, F., Johnson, S. (2016). Forest Product Market Trends. In: Pancel, L., Köhl, M. (eds) Tropical Forestry Handbook. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54601-3_251
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