Russian wood species of solid wood flooring may be collective prices again

Price stability in the last six months of solid wood flooring now have to face the seventh prices. Recently, Russia, the authorities concerned have been developed to improve the draft export tariffs on logs from March 1 next year, the Russian timber export tariffs will increase by three percent. Affected by this, some dealers have maple, oak, ash and other Russian material price increases outdoor waterproof flooring , while Russian material resources shortage of useful new round of price increases may lead to solid wood flooring.

According to this draft tariff, the Sino-Russian timber export tariffs will be in the next three years the annual rate of 30% of the increase, the log export tax rate will be increased to 20% by the year 2010, the lowest tariffs per cubic meter will reach € 24. From the implementation of new tariffs for more than three months time, but the draft now affects the Hangzhou flooring market. Hangzhou, a special distribution of Russian wood floor to receive one from of Erenhot the phone yesterday, according to the person in charge of the company, began last week, the imports of maple, oak and other raw materials began to catch on, per cubic meter of wood has gone up more than 200 yuan, while the volume ratio according to the Russian logs, per square meter of floor billet rose about 10 yuan. In the past several prices storm, some raw materials importers selected in advance stockpile. Some of Hangzhou's flooring business has been ahead of rising price of Russian wood species, wood flooring per square meter, or between $ 5-8.

The person in charge of a flooring company, said: "once tariffs, but also internal digestion, but if you continue to increase tariffs, we will be forced to price increases." The end of 2004 after the Indonesian tsunami, the rage in Southeast Asia, The wood species of solid wood flooring resources in South America is suddenly in short supply, the price is skyrocketing all the way. Affordable Russian wood species into the domestic market in the year, has now formed a maple, oak,wood plastic floor commonly known as oak, Ash, as the representative of the product system.

Two years, the price of maple, oak floor has been maintained at 200-250 yuan / square meter to accept a lot of decoration household. According to the statistics of the Association of Zhejiang Province floor, the floor of the Russian wood species occupy the entire floor market share of around 20%, while the South American material, the Southeast Asian timber and African wood share of roughly 40%, 20% and 10%. In accordance with the laws of the flooring market in the past, 20% share of a move to other regions of the raw material is bound to follow the tension, which again lead to real wood floor is another collective prices cheap garden decking . However, some flooring companies have to look into the other regions to find new alternative species, maybe after the businesses stockpile, and there will be some new low-cost solid wood flooring to enter the market.