Log export statistics to June 2015

New Zealand exported 16 million cubic metres of logs in the year to June 2015. The majority of these logs (11.4 million cubic metres) were exported to China. The following are breakdown of types of phytosanitary action of the 13 million cubic metres (mainly China and India) that required treatment:

• 64.5% (8.38 million m3) were fumigated with phosphine
• 28.1 % (3.65 million m3)  were fumigated with methyl bromide
• 7.4 % (962,000 m3) were debarked.

 Methyl bromide use has declined by 7% from 571 tonnes in 2013 to 525 tonnes in the year to December 2014.
 
The volumes for forestry exports to all countries are available at the following links. Click the link to download the file:

• Year ended 30 June 1996 to most recent [XLS, 313 KB]
• Year ended 31 December 1996 to most recent [XLS, 326 KB]