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freepik The highest proportion was 21.13 percent in 2007, and the
average annual proportion was 14.18 percent. The export value
of wood-based panels showed an upward trend, rising from
US$117.2 million in 1998 to US$7262.9 million in 2018, with
the highest export value reaching US$7860.0 million in 2014.
In addition, the export of sawnwood, wood pulp, and

roundwood is relatively small and accounts for a relatively
low share. The proportion of sawnwood export in the total
export of wood forest products ranked fourth and revealed
a downward trend year by year, which decreased from 4.91
Main Export Products percent in 1998 to 0.36 percent in 2018, with an average
China’s exports of wood forest products are dominated by annual proportion of 2.11 percent.
wood furniture, paper products, and wood-based panels, Although the export value of wood pulp and roundwood
with roundwood, sawnwood, and wood pulp accounting for indicated a rising trend, their export value was small, accounting
a smaller proportion. for a very low proportion of the total export value of wood

Specifcally, the export value of wood furniture accounted forest products, accounting for less than 1 percent in each
for the highest proportion of the total export of wood forest year, with an average annual proportion of 0.31 percent and
products from 1998 to 2018. Its proportion was maintained 0.08 percent, respectively.
between 45 percent and 55 percent and showed a trend of
frst rising and then declining, with the highest proportion of Export Concentration
54.3 percent in 2003. The market concentration of China’s wood forest products
The export value rose from US$1084.7 million in 1998 to export has gradually decreased, although the major export

US$22,964.4 million in 2018, which decreased slightly in 2016 markets are relatively stable, and the export value to emerging
and then continued to rise slowly. economies has increased. We use the Herfndahl–Hirschman
The export value of paper products accounted for the Index (H Index) to measure the export market concentration
second largest proportion of China’s export of wood forest of China’s wood forest products.
products, the proportion of which remained between 25 Overall, China’s export market concentration revealed a
percent and 45 percent and displayed a frst downward and clear downward trend, with the H index falling from 43.851
then upward trend. in 1998 to 32.351 in 2018.
The highest proportion was in 1998, 42.535 percent, while From 1998 to 2004, export market concentration was more
the lowest was in 2004, accounting for 28.96 percent, with stable, and with higher concentration, market concentration was

an average annual proportion of 34.87 percent. The export the highest in 1999 with the H index of 44.882; from 2004 to
value of paper products kept an upward trend, rising from 2014, export market concentration declined signifcantly and
US$990.8 million in 1998 to US$19,460.6 million in 2018. fell to the lowest point in 2014 with an H index of 27.461,
In terms of wood-based panels export, it accounted for the the concentration increased slightly between 2014 and 2018.
third largest share of the total wood forest products export, Among them, the US, Japan, Hong Kong, China, the UK,
the proportion of which remained between fve percent and 25 and Australia are China’s important trading partners in the
percent and indicated a frst rising and then declining trend. export of wood forest products.