Foreign trade in roundwood and forest industry products by country 2021 (provisional)

Forests and forestry

Statistics

The export value of forest industry products totalled EUR 13.1 billion and increased by 16% from the previous year in real terms. Compared with the previous ten-year average, exports were, however, only 2% higher (deflated using the wholesale price index). Paperboard passed paper as the most important export product, covering a quarter of the total export value of the forest industries, while paper remained at 22%. Pulp and sawn goods covered both a fifth.
In the wood-products industries, exports increased by 42% from the previous year to EUR 3.9 billion. Sawn goods had the highest export value out of all products in the wood-products industries. A total of 8.7 million cubic metres of sawn goods were exported, with an export value of EUR 2.6 billion. The exports volume increased by 6% but due to high export prices, value increased over a half. For plywood both the export price and value increased by 15%.
In the pulp and paper industries exports increased by 8% year-on-year to EUR 9.3 billion. Of the total value was paperboard EUR 3.3 billion, paper EUR 2.9 billion and pulp EUR 2.6 billion. The most exported product of pulp and paper industries was bleached sulphate pulp, which export value increased by a fair fifth to EUR 2.1 billion. The exports volume however decreased by 1% and was 3.7 tons. Second exported was multi-ply paperboard coated with kaolin and paperboard coated with plastic with EUR 2.0 billion (+3 from previous year) and third magazine paper EUR 1.2 billion (+4% from previous year).
The most important export countries for the forest industries were Germany (13% share of exports value), China (10%) and the UK (8%).
In 2021, Finland’s wood imports totalled 12.7 million cubic metres and remained unchanged from the previous year. Of wood imports, pulpwood accounted for 54% and chips 35%. Fuelwood, preserved wood and wood residues combined made up 8% and logs 3%. The import volume of pulpwood increased by 2% from the previous year, while that of wood chips remained at the same level. Log imports decreased by a fifth.
Of imported wood 73% originated from Russia, 12 from Estonia and 9% from Latvia.