Explaining the Shifts of International Trade in Pulp and Paper Industry

Hujala, Maija; Arminen, Heli; Hill, R. Carter; Puumalainen, Kaisu

doi:10.5849/forsci.11-078

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“…Zhang and Li (2009) explained China's wood products trade by using roundwood production (per capita) and Chinese logging restrictions as the measures of export supply and import demand. In another recent paper, Hujala et al (2013) focused on the trade of pulp and used various explanatory variables that reflect its import demand, export supply and the costs of trade.…”

Section: A Model Of the Recycled Paper Tradementioning

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Emerging market patterns in the recycled paper trade

Arminen

Hujala

Tuppura

2014

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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The international recovered paper trade serves two important functions: increasing raw material availability in the paper and board industry and providing economic incentives to recycle. The purpose of this paper is to shed further light on emerging patterns in this trade by empirically analysing the changes in the bilateral trade flows of recycled paper between 1992 and 2008. According to our estimations, two important changes occurred in the 1990s and 2000s. First, the growing importance of developing economies in global recycled paper trade plays a significant role in import demand as a determinant of trade flows. Second, the changes in global trade patterns necessitate investigating the transportation cost measures used in applied research.

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Section: A Model Of the Recycled Paper Tradementioning

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Emerging market patterns in the recycled paper trade

Arminen

Hujala

Tuppura

2014

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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“…Market demand of forest products and forest resource availability were also considered as important determinants influencing the international trade of forest products (e.g. Bonnefoi and Buongiorno 1990;Hujala et al 2013).…”

Section: Macro-level Internationalization Research In the Forest Indumentioning

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Internationalization of the forest industry: a corporate-level analysis

Zhang¹

2014

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With far-reaching impacts of economic globalization, the internationalization process of the forest industry has been accelerated. Particularly since the 1990s, internationalization has progressed intensively through industry consolidation and production relocation. Within the wood and wood products sector, for example, world inward foreign direct investment (FDI) stocks increased from 20 billion US dollars in 1990 to more than 120 billion US dollars in 2011. Forest industry firms have geographically shifted their operations from traditional production bases in developed countries to emerging Asian and Latin American countries. The share of FDI flows into developing and transition economies has grown from 18.8% in 1990-1992 to 73% in 2009-2011. The internationalization process of the forest industry has induced multifaceted concerns from economic, strategic, and environmental perspectives at both country and corporate level. However, the actual consequences of such expansion are still largely unknown. It is therefore important to study the current status of the forest industry's internationalization process and to explore drivers and goals of this process.

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“…. Some countries, such as Finland and Sweden, have specialized in the manufacturing of paper and paperboard products due to their rich forest resources, and are globally among the largest exporting countries; and due to the recent capacity reductions in North America, the demand for softwood pulp from European coniferous forests is increasing in global markets (Hujala et al, 2011). Transportation to global markets from Northern Europe typically calls for the shipping of products over long distances, due to product bulkiness.…”

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