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Nigeria

China's imports of logs from Nigeria
Source: based on General Administration of Customs of the People's Republic of China
Note: monthly source data in units of weight has been converted to volume for 12-month periods ending in 2014  (volume - by location of importer;  import value - by customs district)

China's imports of "rosewood" logs from Nigeria (source: as above)
Note: volumes shown since 01 01 2014 are estimates based on source data in units of weight.
('000 m3)
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
2013
0
0
0
1
0
1
2
3
5
4
6
8
2014
9
8
20
21
19
11
28
33
27
16
26
25
2015
23
7
9
14
12
16
 27 40 33 13 10
4
2016
16
8
21
19
18
57
 41 4 7      

China's imports of logs other than "rosewood" from Nigeria (source: as above)
Note: the volumes shown for 2014 is an estimate based on source data in units of weight.
('000 m3)
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
2013
0
0
1
1
2
1
1
2
3
4
7
7
2014
13
14
26
26
11
13
29
32
44
25
35
34
2015
18
12
25
42
39
41
 49 50 29 26 11 9
2016
29
11
15
19
10
4
 2 2 4      


Nigeria
The volume of logs which China imports from Nigeria has recently increased from near zero to nearly 300,000 cubic metres per year. Roughly one third of this comprises species which are referred to as rosewood in China.

India's imports of timber from Nigeria have declined during the last few years, and are thought to have comrpise plantation teak. The EU (primarily Italy) used to import a substantial volumes of timber from Nigieria, but no longer does so.

Having exhausted its own forests, Nigeria is now a net importer of timber.

Nigeria's share of Africa's tropical timber exports is small.

If China's imports of logs derive from the same sorts of locality as in other parts of western Africa, then little if any will be attributable to a (controversial) resurgence in the palm oil plantations sector in Cross Rivers state - in the vicinity some of the last remaining good quanlity tropical forest - most notably that linked to PZ Wilmar (part of the largest palm oil group in the world, based in Singapore).

 
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