OREANDA-NEWS. December 29, 2014. Between January and October 2014, China’s redwood imports were 1,850,000 cubic metres a year on year increase of 10%, according to Chinese Redwood Committee.

Of the total, imported redwood from Southeast Asia totaled 1,070,000 cubic metres, African countries provided 750,000 cubic metres, with Central and South America accounting for the balance. Guangdong, Yunnan, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Fujian are the main redwood processing centres.

Redwood imports to these six provinces from January to October were 1,780,000 million cubic metres, or 96% of the national total.