# Presentation: 048613

## Wood Product Exports

## Exports – All Wood Products

- 	Exports of all wood products for reporting countries in 2004 totaled $65.7 billion, a 25 percent increase from 2003.  The world’s leading exporter of wood products was Canada ($17.3 billion), followed by the EU-25 ($10.4 billion) and the United States ($6.2 billion).
- 	_Major markets in 2004 for the top three wood exporters:_
- 	**Canada** - United States, Japan and the United Kingdom
- 	**EU-25*** - United States, Japan and Switzerland
- 	**United States** - Canada, Japan and Mexico

- *Excluding intra-EU trade

## Top 10 Wood Product Exporters

- Source:  Global Trade Atlas (reporting countries)

## Exports – Softwood Logs

- 	Exports of softwood logs for reporting countries in 2004 totaled $3.7 billion, a 19 percent increase from 2003.  The world’s leading exporter of softwood logs was Russia ($1.8 billion), followed by the United States ($869 million) and Canada ($349 million).
- 	_Major markets in 2004 for the top three softwood log exporters:_
- 	**Russia** - China, Japan and Finland
- 	**United States** – Japan, Canada and South Korea
- 	**Canada** – United States, Japan and Korea

## Top 10 Softwood Log Exporters

- Source:  Global Trade Atlas (reporting countries) - Note:  Ukraine data unavailable for 2000 and 2001

## Exports – Hardwood Logs

- 	Exports of hardwood logs for reporting countries in 2004 totaled $2.1 billion, a 11 percent increase from 2003.  The world’s leading exporter of hardwood logs was the United States ($603 million), followed by Malaysia ($525 million) and Russia ($483 million).
- 	_Major markets in 2004 for the top three hardwood log exporters:_
- 	**United States** - Canada, China and Germany
- 	**Malaysia** – India, Japan and China
- 	**Russia** – Finland, China and Sweden

## Top 10 Hardwood Log Exporters

- Source:  Global Trade Atlas (reporting countries) – Note:  Ukraine and Uruguay data unavailable for 2000 and 2001

## Exports – Softwood Lumber

- 	Exports of softwood lumber for reporting countries in 2004 totaled $15.3 billion, a 32 percent increase from 2003.  The world’s leading exporter of softwood lumber was Canada ($8.5 billion), followed by the EU-25 ($2.6 billion) and Russia ($1.5 billion).
- 	_Major markets in 2004 for the top three softwood lumber exporters:_
- 	**Canada** – United States, Japan and the United Kingdom
- 	**EU-25 **– Japan, United States and Norway
- 	**Russia** – Japan, Egypt and the United Kingdom

## Top 10 Softwood Lumber Exporters

- Source:  Global Trade Atlas (reporting countries)

## Exports – Hardwood Lumber

- 	Exports of hardwood lumber for reporting countries in 2004 totaled $5.1 billion, a 12 percent increase from 2003.  The world’s leading exporter of hardwood lumber was the United States ($1.5 billion), followed by Malaysia ($742 million) and Brazil ($543 million).
- 	_Major markets in 2004 for the top three hardwood lumber exporters:_
- 	**United States** – Canada, China and Spain
- 	**Malaysia **– Thailand, the Netherlands and Japan
- 	**Brazil** – China, France and the United States

## Top 10 Hardwood Lumber Exporters

- Source:  Global Trade Atlas (reporting countries) – Note:  Data unavailable for Croatia in 2000 and 2001