The international financial crisis in 2009 had a major negative impact on worldwide demand for pulp and paper products. As a result, the consumption of wood chips and pulpwood for pulp production was lower and global trade of wood chips fell 14 percent, according to the Wood resource quarterly.
China bucked this trend, almost tripling its imports to became the worlds second largest importer of wood chips last year.
Worldwide demand
for pulp and paper products
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