Global Imports of Printing Paper Fall Dramatically, but China Increases Its Purchases
Sep 6, 2021
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Digitalization has put pressure on the world’s trade of printing and writing paper. Over the past decade, global imports of printing and writing paper dropped from 47M tons in 2010 to 31M tons in 2020. In value terms, imports declined to $27.6B. The U.S., Germany and France remain the largest importers of printing and writing paper worldwide. China features as the only county that boosted its paper imports last year. In 2020, the average printing and writing paper import price fell by -3.2% y-o-y to $899 per ton 2020. Germany, Indonesia, Finland and Sweden constitute the largest exporters of printing and writing paper.