Tariffs fall in Russia

                                                 Tariffs fall in Russia

In August 2012 Russia join the world trade organization (WTO), the Russian government was forced to reduce export taxes, such as the cedar and pine reduce by 13% and 15% respectively

When Russian tariff implementation, log price has a slightly fall.But from the first quarter of 2009 to the third quarter in2012, lumber prices (in Russia's currency rubles) rose by 24% on average

 Under the condition of the weak market in Europe this year, western Russia sawmills still keep good production, mainly because Russia exports in Western Europe market proportion is fairly small. Egypt and the former cis countries is Russia's major importer of western sawmill products, the market sales in this year is pretty good, or even increase