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ITTO encourages ASEAN to harness timber as a driver of sustainable development
ITTO Projects Manager Tetra Yanuariadi addressed delegates from across the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on the critical role of legal and sustainable supply chains in realizing the potential of tropical timber from sustainably managed forests to drive economic development in the region and beyond. © NRCD ITTO briefed senior officials and forestry experts from across the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on the critical role of legal and sustaina
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GTI Report: Brazil and Congo defy downward trend in global timber sector
Wood processing in CDP Sawmill, Samutsakorn, Thailand. © Yuvarin Akravisophol The timber sector posted growth in Brazil in August 2026 and held steady in the Republic of the Congo, while activity declined in other countries, according to the latest Global Timber Index (GTI) Report. The ITTO-supported GTI tracks the performance of the timber sector in ten pilot countries across three continents. Among the pilot countries, Brazil (59.2%) continued to register a GTI reading abov
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Australian Timber Gets New Watchdog for Dumping and Import Surges
A new law will let the Anti-Dumping Commission recommend emergency tariffs when imports suddenly flood in, a change the timber union has sought for more than a decade. Export logs wait on a tropical foreshore as a bulk carrier lies at anchor in a file image of the timber trade. Federal Parliament voted on 17 September to move Australia's safeguard inquiries, which test whether a surge of imports is seriously injuring a local industry, to a renamed Anti-Dumping Commission. (Ph
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Ireland’s Mills Buy a Record Wood Haul Whilst State Forests Sell Less
Growers on private land supplied 371,000 more cubic metres than in 2024, in a year the Central Statistics Office attributes to Storm Éowyn. Roundwood stacked at an Irish log yard, where mills bought 3.81 million cubic metres in 2025, the most the Central Statistics Office has recorded. (Photo Credit: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine / Timber in Construction Steering Group) Private forest owners in Ireland sold 1.61 million cubic metres of roundwood to the countr
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South Africa Turns Invasive Trees into Green Fuel for Europe
Coega Biomass Centre says more than 90 percent of the wood came from land restoration clearing, a year after a similar cargo went to Japan. Wood chips are loaded onto trucks bound for a processing factory in South Africa, photographed by Duduzile Ngwenya, co-author of a Stellenbosch University study of invasive tree supply chains. She and Romain Pirard found most of the wood cut to control invasions goes unused. (Photo Credit: D. K. Ngwenya / Bois et Forêts des Tropiques, CC
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Xuất khẩu gỗ tăng 6%, thị trường Bỉ còn nhiều dư địa
Xuất khẩu gỗ và sản phẩm gỗ tăng 6% trong 8 tháng, nhưng thị trường Mỹ suy giảm, trong khi thị phần tại Bỉ đang mở ra dư địa cho doanh nghiệp. Thị trường Mỹ giảm, Trung Quốc tăng mạnh Theo số liệu thống kê từ Cục Hải quan, tháng 8/2026, trị giá xuất khẩu gỗ và sản phẩm gỗ đạt 1,58 tỷ USD, giảm 1,6% so với tháng 7/2026 nhưng tăng 7,3% so với tháng 8/2025. Trong đó, xuất khẩu sản phẩm gỗ đạt 1,03 tỷ USD, giảm 1,3% so với tháng trước nhưng tăng 5,5% so với cùng kỳ năm 2025. Tính
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Ngành gỗ cần được gỡ vướng về thuế giá trị gia tăng
Chính sách thuế giá trị gia tăng (VAT) đối với gỗ sơ chế thông thường đã được làm rõ hơn từ năm 2026. Tuy nhiên, thực tế sản xuất, kinh doanh ngành gỗ luôn thường trực câu hỏi “sản phẩm này có còn là gỗ sơ chế thông thường hay đã trở thành sản phẩm gỗ khác đã qua chế biến”. Gỗ xẻ sấy, sơ chế có thể được miễn thuế giá trị gia tăng theo quy định. Trong ảnh: Kho gỗ nguyên liệu của một doanh nghiệp thuộc Hiệp hội Gỗ và thủ công mỹ nghệ Đồng Nai (Dowa). Doanh nghiệp (DN) ngành gỗ
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NZ’s Sovereign Wealth Fund Is Growing Its US Forest Estate
Kaingaroa is the fund's single largest investment, and the Guardians have now committed $200 million to a US timberland account alongside it. Rows of planted pine are the asset class the Guardians are buying into, with Domain Timber Advisors managing 270,000 acres across the United States at 31 March 2026. (Photo Credit: © Jillian Cain / Dreamstime.com) New Zealand’s sovereign wealth fund has committed a further US$50 million to American timberland, bringing the total in a se
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Australia is the ‘Lucky Country’ for Japan’s Timber Giants
Sumitomo Forestry's Australian profit rose 72 per cent, the only housing market in the group where it did, with Obayashi due to take over Multiplex on 30 September. A gum tree rides the crane to the crown of Atlassian Central at topping out in July, the 39-storey hybrid timber tower the Built Obayashi Joint Venture is finishing beside Sydney's Central Station. Obayashi is due to take Multiplex, a rival Tier 1 contractor, outright on 30 September. (Photo Credit: Supplied to Wo
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American South Offers the World’s Best Chance for More Softwood Logs
Global softwood supply will lag demand over the next decade, growing 0.5 per cent a year to 2035, with labour, infrastructure, and investment deciding how much reaches a mill. Lumber banded for delivery at Culpeper, Virginia. Ekström and O'Kelly put the greatest opportunity to add softwood supply before 2035 in the American South, where harvests still run below biological growth and mills have added more than 11 billion board feet of capacity since 2009. (Photo Credit: Andriy
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Ngành gỗ nỗ lực hóa giải thách thức
Dù có nhiều tín hiệu lạc quan nhưng ngành gỗ vẫn đang phải đối mặt với không ít khó khăn, áp lực... Trong bối cảnh đó, các doanh nghiệp gỗ đã và đang đẩy mạnh đa dạng hóa thị trường, nâng tỷ trọng chế biến sâu và phát triển nguồn nguyên liệu bền vững. Gỗ xuất khẩu đối diện nhiều thách thức. Ảnh: Đỗ Hương. Thị trường dịch chuyển Số liệu thống kê cho hay, 7 tháng đầu năm, kim ngạch xuất khẩu gỗ và sản phẩm gỗ đạt 10,2 tỷ USD, ghi nhận mức tăng trưởng 5,6% so với cùng kỳ năm trư
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Using timber forensics to combat illegal timber trade
1 September 2026, Yokohama The webinar, bringing together forestry experts from India and Indonesia, was held as part of a flagship ITTO project enhancing the production of high-quality timber from teak and other valuable species managed by smallholders (Pictured: clonal teak plantations in the farmlands of Tamil Nadu, India). © Dr R. Yasodha, ICFRE-Institute of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding What if a piece of timber could reveal where it came from—even after it had been
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Brazil’s Plywood Exports Rebound After Trump’s 50% Tariff Hit
Brazilian mills shipped 183,100 cubic metres of plywood in August, with Washington sparing their panels from its newest duty and taxing Canadian competitors instead. Sawn tropical hardwood stacks beside a bandsaw line at a mill in Belém, capital of Pará and host city of COP30 in November 2025. Brazil's softwood panels compete with Southern Pine in the American structural market and have been the largest foreign supply of softwood plywood into the United States. (Photo Credit:
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Europe’s Sawmills Shrink as Holmen and Stora Enso Cut Capacity
Karolina Svensson takes Linghem from 72,000 cubic metres to 26,000 while Stora Enso's Veitsiluoto talks run to September and EOS counts capacity shifting from Germany to Finland. Logs stacked at the gate of Westas Group's sawmill at Koski Tl in south-west Finland, in a June 2021 frame. Finnish mills grew output 7 per cent in 2025 on EOS figures while Germany's fell 9 per cent, and Stora Enso is now in talks on closing Veitsiluoto at Kemi for good. (Photo Credit: © Taina Sohlm
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World’s First Bamboo Tower Could Rise 11 Storeys Over St Louis Riverfront
Luke Schüette has told Wood Central construction starts in the third quarter of 2027 on St Louis's North Landing LoüTeq's LouTower, 200 feet of structural engineered bamboo and stainless steel, in the company's daylight render with the Stan Musial Veterans Memorial Bridge behind. Render, not a photograph. (Image Credit: LoüTeq, supplied by Luke Schüette) The world’s first observation tower made from structurally engineered bamboo (SEB) could rise 11 storeys over the St Louis
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Sixty Years of Data Show Prescribed Burning Cuts Wildfire Losses
Six decades of data show the west still burning five times more forest each year than Victoria, where wildfire kills 18 times as many people per million. Low flame runs through the understorey during a hazard reduction burn in Australian woodland, with the canopy above it green and unscorched. (Photo Credit: Brian Scantlebury, Dreamstime) Wildfire has consumed more than three times as much south-west Western Australian public native forest every year since 1995 as it did acro
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IKEA Vows No Supplier Squeeze Despite 26% Fall in Profits
CEO says selling more will mean suppliers making more, with up to 25 per cent off about 900 products a market. IKEA's Adelaide store. The 1.2 billion euro price reduction applies in Europe only, with Ingka Group spending a separate 70 million euros to hold prices in Asia and North America. (Photo Credit: © THPStock | Dreamstime.com) IKEA’s suppliers have been promised they will feel nothing from the €1.2 billion the furniture giant took off its European prices last Tuesday. T
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Australia’s Timber Design Awards Target ‘the Missing Middle’
Organiser says the categories and the ways projects engage with the awards have broadened as new project types enter, with more and more entries judged before the 21 October gala. Kylan Low, organiser of the Australian Timber Design Awards. (Photo Credit: Supplied) Australia’s Timber Design Awards have outgrown exemplar projects, with more and more diverse examples of timber design than in past years. That is according to Kylan Low, the organiser of the 27th awards, who told
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Canada Hits Back With 25% Tariffs on US Lumber and 50% on Plywood
Ottawa's revised list of 629 tariff items takes effect on Tuesday after fish and seafood came off, with veneer, OSB, particleboard, and fibreboard left outside the wood lines. Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne announces Canada's counter-tariff list at a roofing company in Ottawa on 25 August, a day before his department cut it from 874 tariff items to 629. Industry Minister Mélanie Joly, Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu, and Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon j
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Ngành gỗ Việt Nam chuyển từ gia công sang làm chủ thiết kế
Nhóm sản phẩm chế biến sâu chiếm 64,4% kim ngạch xuất khẩu 7 tháng đầu năm 2026, tạo nền tảng để ngành gỗ Việt Nam chuyển từ gia công theo đơn hàng sang làm chủ thiết kế, phát triển sản phẩm và xây dựng thương hiệu, qua đó nâng giá trị trong chuỗi cung ứng toàn cầu. Chế biến sâu tạo nền tảng cho bước chuyển chuỗi giá trị Bảy tháng đầu năm 2026, xuất khẩu gỗ và sản phẩm gỗ đạt 10,2 tỷ USD, tăng 5,6% so với cùng kỳ năm 2025. Trong đó, nhóm sản phẩm chế biến sâu đạt 6,6 tỷ USD,
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