Timber supply represented 0.7% of non-traditional exports as of October

Management of Services and Extractive industries of the Association of Exporters (Adex) reported that the export of wood between January and October reached US $ 97 million 681 thousand, a growth of 32.2% when compared to the same period last year (US $ 73 million 871 thousand); However, it fell 3.9% compared to 2019 (US $ 101 million 619 thousand).

However, despite its potential – 85% of the national territory has the ability to forest-, in these 10 months of the year, shipments barely represented 0.7% of total non-traditional exports (just over US $ 13,050 million).

Therefore, in order to promote the recovery and development of this sector, the export union, PromPerú and WWF Peru organized the Forum of wood and finishes for sustainability in construction, in which topics such as opportunities and trends, potential of the sector forest, among others.

One of the great challenges is deforestation, caused largely by extreme poverty and social exclusion. In this context, one of the most abundant and important resources is the timber forest, its good management gives value to the forests, creates jobs and prevents deforestation.

Main destinations

Recovery of wood shipments in these 10 months was driven by France and the United States, that increased their demand by 175.3% and 60.6%, respectively. The high percentages are due to a statistical effect in view of the situation due to the pandemic in 2020.

The main buyer in the period of time analyzed was China with US $ 30 million 186 thousand, almost the same amount of the previous year (US $ 30 million 045 thousand). The Asian giant represented 30.9% of the total exported.

Then came France with US $ 16 million and USA with US $ 11 million 208 thousand. The top five were completed by Mexico (US $ 6 million 950 thousand) and the Dominican Republic (US $ 6 million 250 thousand).

Products

Semi-manufactured products (US $ 58 million 27 thousand) were the most exported, representing 59.4% of the total. The molding wood, the longitudinally profiled and the slats and friezes stood out.

The second in the ranking was sawn wood (US $ 25 million 366 thousand), which represented 25.9% of the total, followed by construction products (US $ 5 million 467 thousand), furniture and its parts (US $ 3 million 446 thousand), veneered and plywood (US $ 2 million 645 thousand) and manufactured products (US $ 1 million 145 thousand), among others.