RAW WOOD DEMAND FOR PROCESSING WOOD PRODUCTS EXPORTED TO THE EU MARKET UNDER THE EU-VIETNAM FREE TRADE AGREEMENT
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.70169/VJFS.1233Keywords:
Raw Wood, Raw Wood Demand, Wood Products (WPs)Abstract
The research aims to analyze the current situation of using raw wood and to forecast the raw wood demand for processing wood products (WPs) for export to the European Union (EU) market in the period of 2025 – 2030; to recommend preferential policies supporting processing enterprises to gradually reduce the use of imported raw wood, increase the use of domestically planted forest wood for processing, and exporting WPs to the EU market. The research analyzed secondary data, surveyed at 46 wood processing enterprises in 3 representative regions of the country, used statistical and regression analysis methods to forecast the raw wood demand for the period of 2025-2030. The results of the research identified 02 pairs of opposite trends, namely: i) the raw wood demand for processing WPs for export of the whole country is increased, while the raw wood demand for processing WPs exported to the EU market is decreased; ii) the demand on domestic raw wood tends to increase while the demand on imported raw wood tends to decrease. The causes of the above 02 pairs of trends, solutions and policy recommendations are also the results of research.
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