THE BRAZILIAN INSERTION INTO THE INTERNATIONAL TRADE OF FOREST PRODUCTS CHAIN

Maxir, Henrique dos Santos; Masullo, Liamara Santos

doi:10.1590/1806-90882017000300018

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Articles • Rev. Árvore 41 (3) • 2017 • https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-90882017000300018 copy

THE BRAZILIAN INSERTION INTO THE INTERNATIONAL TRADE OF FOREST PRODUCTS CHAIN

A INSERÇÃO DO BRASIL NO COMÉRCIO INTERNACIONAL DE PRODUTOS DA CADEIA FLORESTAL

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ABSTRACT

The growing demand for forest products and the increasing interest worldwide in this market requires studying the behavior and defining Brazil’s role in relation to other competitive countries in the sector. This study analyzed the international trade in forest products from 2000 to 2014 emphasizing Brazil’s role. The Revealed Comparative Advantage index (RCA) and Revealed Comparative Disadvantage index (RCD) were analyzed based on the matrix of the symmetric Aquino index, also through the intra-industry and interindustry analysis using the Grubel-Lloyd index. Brazil shows RCA in fuel wood, wood panels, wood floors and wood articles as well as wood pulp. Brazil imports relatively small amounts of wood; nevertheless, it still has relatively high dependence on paper importations.

Keywords:
Comparative Advantage; Intra-industry trade; Forest economy

Table 1 Classification of selected products in the forest chain.

Products	HS	Description
Wood fuel	44.01	Fuel wood, in logs, in billets, in twigs, in faggots or in similar forms; wood in chips or particles;sawdust and wood waste and scrap, whether or not agglomerated in logs, briquettes, pellets or similar forms.
Wood	44.03	Wood in the rough, whether or not stripped of bark or sapwood, or roughly squared.
	44.04	Hoopwood; split poles; piles, pickets and stakes of wood, pointed but not sawn lengthwise; wooden sticks, roughly trimmed but not turned, bent or otherwise worked, suitable for the manufacture of walking-sticks, umbrellas, tool handles.
	44.05	Wood wool; wood flour.
	44.06	Railway or tramway sleepers (cross-ties) of wood.
	44.07	Wood sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or finger-jointed, of a thickness exceeding 6 mm.
	44.08	Veneer sheets and sheets for plywood (whether or not spliced) and other wood sawn lengthwise, slicedor peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or finger-jointed,of a thickness not exceeding 6 mm.
Panels, floors and wood articles	44.09	Wood (including strips and friezes for parquet flooring, not assembled) continuously shaped (tongued, grooved, grooved, rebated, chamfered, V-jlinted, beaded, moulded, rounded or the like) along any of its edges or faces, whether or not.
	44.10	Particle board and similar board of wood or other ligneous materials, whether or not agglomerated with resins or other organic binding substances.
	44.11	Fiberboard of wood or other ligneous materials, whether or not bonded with resins or other organic substances.
	44.12	Plywood, veneered panels and similar laminated wood.
	44.13	Densified wood, in blocks, plates, strips or profile shapes.
	44.14	Wooden frames for paintings, photographs, mirrors or similar objects.
	44.15	Packing cases, boxes, crates, drums and similar packings, of wood; cable-drums of wood; pallets, box pallets and other load boards, of wood; pallet collars of wood.
	44.16	Casks, barrels, vats, tubs and other coopers' products and parts thereof, of wood, including staves.
	44.17	Tools, tool bodies, tool handles, broom or brush bodies and handles, of wood; boot or shoe lasts and trees, of wood.
	44.18	Builders' joinery and carpentry of wood, including cellular wood panels, assembled parquet panels, shingles and shakes.
	44.19	Tableware and kitchenware, of wood.
	44.20	Wood marquetry and inlaid wood; caskets and cases for jewelry or cutlery, and similar articles, of wood; statuettes and other ornaments, of wood; wooden articles of furniture not falling in Chapter 94.
	44.21	Other articles of wood.
Cork	45	Cork and articles of cork.
Pulp of wood	47.01	Mechanical wood pulp.
	47.02	Chemical wood pulp, dissolving grades.
	47.03	Chemical wood pulp, soda or sulphate, other than dissolving grades.
	47.04	Chemical wood pulp, sulphite, other than dissolving grades.
	47.05	Semi-chemical wood pulp.
Paper	48	Paper & paperboard; art of paper pulp, paper/paperboard.

Table 2 Rank of the major forest products exporters in 2014 (US$ billion FOB).

Country	Forest chain		Fuel wood		Wood		Panels, floors and wood articles		Cork		Pulp of wood		Paper
Germany	32.70	9.55%	0.42	5.20%	2.80	5.17%	5.91	8.22%	0.036	2.01%	1.01	2.85%	22.52	13.18%
USA	31.70	9.26%	0.83	10.31%	6.55	12.08%	2.34	3.26%	0.031	1.69%	5.60	15.85%	16.34	9.56%
Canada	27.74	8.10%	0.35	4.35%	8.93	16.46%	3.38	4.70%	0.005	0.27%	6.52	18.44%	8.56	5.01%
Chile	23.23	6.79%	0.31	3.83%	1.03	1.89%	1.17	1.62%	0.012	0.68%	2.89	8.18%	17.82	10.43%
Sweden	17.49	5.11%	0.08	0.96%	3.64	6.71%	0.94	1.30%	0.003	0.19%	2.65	7.49%	10.18	5.96%
China	16.01	4.68%	0.05	0.59%	0.59	1.10%	13.74	19.11%	0.020	1.09%	0.01	0.04%	1.60	0.93%
Finland	14.82	4.33%	0.03	0.36%	2.18	4.01%	1.06	1.48%	0.000	0.01%	2.12	6.00%	9.43	5.52%
Russia	11.14	3.26%	0.25	3.06%	5.65	10.42%	1.86	2.59%	0.001	0.04%	1.12	3.17%	2.26	1.32%
France	10.67	3.12%	0.12	1.47%	0.84	1.54%	1.95	2.71%	0.085	4.67%	0.44	1.24%	7.25	4.24%
Austria	10.58	3.09%	0.20	2.43%	1.58	2.91%	3.11	4.33%	0.009	0.49%	0.28	0.78%	5.41	3.16%
Italy	10.04	2.93%	0.01	0.17%	0.38	0.69%	1.69	2.35%	0.057	3.14%	0.03	0.07%	7.88	4.61%
Brazil	9.46	2.76%	0.13	1.66%	0.49	0.90%	1.62	2.25%	0.002	0.12%	5.29	14.97%	1.92	1.12%
Indonesia	9.38	2.74%	0.23	2.87%	0.08	0.15%	3.60	5.01%	0.000	0.01%	1.72	4.86%	3.74	2.19%
Poland	8.58	2.51%	0.14	1.77%	0.54	0.99%	3.45	4.79%	0.007	0.40%	0.12	0.35%	4.32	2.53%
Belgium	8.13	2.37%	0.10	1.20%	0.84	1.56%	1.82	2.54%	0.013	0.69%	0.57	1.61%	4.78	2.80%
Total	241.66	70.61%	3.25	40.23%	36.11	66.58%	47.64	66.26%	0.280	15.50%	30.37	85.91%	124.02	72.56%
Others	100.60	29.39%	4.82	59.77%	18.12	33.42%	24.26	33.74%	1.528	84.50%	4.98	14.09%	46.89	27.44%
World	342.27	100.00%	8.07	100.00%	54.23	100.00%	71.90	100.00%	1.808	100.00%	35.35	100.00%	170.91	100.00%

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