Following on the sharp fall in the second quarter (-34%), German softwood plywood imports recovered again in the third quarter and rose by 33% to 110,829m3, according to the German Federal Statistical Office. This rise is practically solely due to higher deliveries from Brazil, which doubled to 60,735 m3 compared with the same stretch of last year. This comes after a fall by 38% in imports from Brazil between April and June. Deliveries from Finland also rose noticeably by 20% to 19,070m3, as did softwood plywood deliveries from Russia, which jumped 49% to 5,090m3, albeit from a low base level. On the other hand softwood plywood imports from France (-5%), China (-86%), Belgium (-18%), Chile (-55%) and the Czech Republic (-46%) all showed decline.
