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Italy, which has Europe's third major forest and, arguably, the a lot of beautiful oak forest, is the principle target of these buyers. Moving? This is not really a problem: for a trip Le Havre-Shanghai, the idea costs about 20 € per cubic meter. And since, without having it, the boat could danger going empty...By comparison, that's what it costs 200 kilometers in a very truck for this same cubic meter involving wood.

The limits of marking

The situation is nothing fresh: the explosion of exports of raw oak to China dates from 2012. It is to counteract such a leakage of raw materials in China that this sector had obtained from the Ministry of Agriculture the implementation of any European label in 2015. This labeling required the customer to guarantee a first change of wood purchased in Europe. With regard to transport charges (around 10 euros per cubic meter per 100 kilometers), such a measure ensured in which French sawyers had almost identical exclusivity as the first improve. From 2015 to 2016, sign exports fell by almost 25%, reported by statistics provided by the FNB. The labeling has worked, at first.

But that system has its limits: the control of companies leaves something to be desired, according to the actors in the sector. And, with the resumption of tutorials (oak took over 30% 2009, all qualities combined), the export has resumed more.

Should many of us increase volumes?

What are the solutions proposed by sawyers? Extend labeling to individual forest sales? Difficult, for Christophe Baudot, forestry expert and director in the Groupement champenois, first manager with the private forests of Aube, which proposes, for its part, to place more wood available. "China is definitely siphoning, but the market is very buoyant. The deposit is saturated but if we could actually put more wood on the marketplace, it could solve the problem. "

Such an increase within volumes could come only out of private forests: on the side belonging to the National Forest Office, the lists of big wood, the most sought after, tend to fall, according in order to Xavier Rousset, who runs the Aube- Marne of the public establishment.

Increase available lists? The solution is not to the tastes of the sawyers, for whom these volumes would also check out export. Nor do they want to contract volumes. For François Moniot, contracting should be possible if 100% of the volumes are involved. Nothing beats "block and standing" revenue.