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16 China’s Export Growth and Wood Products 26 Tropical Timber Market Report
Quality Despite signs of recovery and growth in 2024,
The rapid-developed scale of China’s trade in wood economic challenges remain and some countries
forest products has undergone a considerable are trying to navigate through these diffculties
uptick. Factors infuencing the quality of China’s by diversifying and strengthening their footprints
wood product exports are examined using BACI in different markets through innovations and
data spanning from 1998 top 2017, showing that certifcation. ITTO shares more about the latest
total factor productivity, R&D investment, capital happenings in Asia.
intensity, labour costs and foreign direct investment
each has a part to play. By Wan Lu, Fu Yizhong
and Yuan Luyao, Beijing Forestry University, and DESign
Ban Nannan, Dongbei University of Finance and
Economics 44 Pantone Colour of the Year 2024: Peach Fuzz

25 2024 Will Be Better
By Michael Hermens, Founder & Group Managing MATERiAlS
Director of APP Timber, a solution-providing
company for over 25 years, specialising in imported 46 Evaluation of the OSB Properties Using Tropical
certifed timber and wood-based materials. Wood Mixtures
A study to evaluate the composition of oriented
strand board (OSB) panels and the potential of
using a mixture of three Amazonian wood species
that have been underutilised by the Brazilian wood