Canada, Mexico, United States
One-fourth of the area of the NAFTA countries is forest land. Together these three countries account for 15 percent of the world's forest area. Almost 90 percent of the region's forest is located in the United States and Canada, which are major world producers of wood. Canada and the United States together produce 40 percent of the world's industrial roundwood and over one-third of all processed wood products, including almost half the world's paper pulp. NAFTA is extremely important in world trade of wood products. The value of its exports of sawnwood and pulp for paper represents one-half of the world export market. NAFTA accounts for nearly one-third of the world's import market for sawnwood and one-fifth of the paper and paper pulp markets. The forestry sector in these countries is a significant source of revenue and employment through forest industries, forest-based recreation and tourism.<
|
Land area (thousand ha) |
2 028 878 |
Total forest area, 1995 (thousand ha) |
512 473 |
Percent of land in forest (%) |
25.3 |
Forest area per caput (ha) |
1.3 |
Annual change in forest area, 1990-1995 (thousand ha) |
256 |
Percent annual change, 1990-1995 (%) |
0.1 |
|
Product |
Quantity |
% of world total |
Fuelwood and charcoal |
110 760a |
6 |
Industrial roundwood |
596 968a |
40 |
Sawnwood |
175 025a |
41 |
Wood panels |
50 024a |
33 |
Pulp for paper |
83 382b |
46 |
Paper and paperboard |
103 432b |
37 |
|
Product |
Export value |
Import value |
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Export quantity |
thousand US$ |
% of world total |
Import quantity |
thousand US$ |
% of world total |
|
Fuelwood and charcoal |
682a |
38 411 |
13 |
396a |
20 027 |
7 |
Industrial roundwood |
23 677a |
2 884 452 |
26 |
9 315a |
472 598 |
3 |
Sawnwood |
58 024a |
11 862 320 |
47 |
46 211a |
7 773 383 |
30 |
Wood panels |
9 715a |
2 386 590 |
15 |
9 614a |
2 398 628 |
15 |
Pulp for paper |
15 706b |
8 213 371 |
51 |
5 741b |
3 850 166 |
19 |
Paper and paperboard |
22 973b |
16 945 310 |
26 |
14 368b |
11 902 824 |
21 |
a Thousand m3.
b Thousand tonnes.