São Paulo – Brazil’s international sales of cellulose went up 19.9% in Q1 this year over the same period of last year and stood at 2.8 million tons. Wood panels exports totaled 129,000 cubic meters, and increase of 43.3%, and paper exports dropped 3.5% to 462,000 tons. The data is from the Brazilian Tree Industry (IBA).
Revenue with exports of these three products reached US$ 1.8 billion, na increase of 3.1%. With this result, the trade balance of the sector registered a surplus of US$ 1.4 billion, an increase of 7.5% over the same months last year.
In this year’s Q1, the Brazilian production of cellulose reached 4.1 million tons, an increase of 7% over Q1 2014. The production of wood panels remained practically the same, with 1.9 million of cubic meters. And paper production also remained stable, with 2.5 million tons.
*Translated by Sérgio Kakitani
