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The Asia Bulletin is a monthly report featuring key information from six Asian countries, with a focus on China. Designed for businesses selling logs and lumber in Asia or tracking regional trade flows, it offers essential insights into trade volumes, sourcing trends, and market dynamics.

Countries Covered

  1. China
  2. India
  3. Japan
  4. South Korea
  5. Vietnam
  6. Malaysia

What’s Included

Each issue is approximately 30 pages and features the following:

  • A Special Report on a timely industry or market topic
  • Softwood log and lumber imports for each of the six countries1, updated monthly, with commentary on recent market activity
  • Detailed tables and graphs identifying the key source countries that supply softwood logs and lumber, with year-over-year and year-to-date comparisons

Additional coverage for China:

  • Industry News in Brief, an informative snapshot of developments in the Chinese market
  • Softwood and hardwood log and lumber imports, by both source country and species
  • Softwood log and lumber inventories and import prices (CIF or CFR China), by both source country and species
  • Softwood log wholesale market prices, by species
  • Export volumes of plywood, fibreboard, particleboard, and doors, by destination country
  • Sulfate wood pulp imports, by country

Database

Directly access data from the Asia Bulletin through our Data Center. The database is updated each month with the following:

  • Monthly softwood log and lumber imports by source country for five countries:
    • China
    • India
    • Japan
    • South Korea
    • Vietnam
  • Monthly softwood and hardwood lumber imports by source country for Malaysia

Additional coverage for China:

  • Monthly trade volumes by source/destination country for key products:
    • Plywood, particleboard, and fiberboard exports
    • Door exports
    • Hardwood log and lumber imports
    • Sulfate wood pulp imports
  • Log prices, landed in China
  • Lumber prices, landed in China
  • Softwood log inventory at ocean ports
  • Softwood lumber inventory in the Taicang port area
  • Looking for the China Bulletin?

    The Asia Bulletin, launched in June 2025, is an expanded version of FEA’s China Bulletin. The new report contains all of the trusted data and analysis you’ve come to rely on, but now with broader regional coverage and commentary as outlined above.

1 For Malaysia, we report only hardwood lumber imports. Softwood log imports are minimal.