How Does Australia Import Woodchips In Japan

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Due date: 24/11/16
Jonathan Trevor
Woodchip Report
Introduction: Wood chipping is a huge industry in Australia and just be selling woodchips to Japan make about $600-$650 million dollars a year and exports around 4.5 million tons of woodchips to Japan annually. Australia exports woodchips to other countries but the main country Australia trades with is Japan.
What do the Japanese do with Woodchips? and history of Japans paper industry:
The Japanese import woodchips for their wood pulp industry. The Japanese paper industry has made remarkable progress since the end of the second world war. The countries production of paper in 1953 exceeded the level of 1.5 million metric-tons. By maintaining the annual production growth by 1974 it reached …show more content…

Australia exports woodchips mainly to Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Indonesia. But by far the most consistent buyer is Japan. Japan buys around 95% of Australia’s total woodchip exports. Japan is overwhelmingly important to Australia but Australia isn’t as important to Japan. Japan imports woodchips from about a dozen other countries USA is the largest importer to Japan importing around 34% of all woodchip exports to Australia and Australia only makes up 28% of the woodchip market a lot less than the US (Some indicators hint in an Australia increase in the share of the Japanese market).
What impact does wood chipping have on the environment and …show more content…

Logging in the Otway’s reduces the amount of water that is available to use for the households and the industry. Research by scientists in the Warrnambool shows that if logging stopped in the Warrnambool water catchment water runoff would be increased in 28% in 60 years. Logging also increases the risk of fires in the Otway’s by drying out the forests. Fires are also caused directly by logging, particularly the practise of burning areas that have been logged. Logging is killing tourism in the Otway’s because the logging of the forests destroys some of the forests beauty and the Otway’s is a beautiful forest and by destroying this they are destroying the potential to be used in the tourism industry. Logging also destroys the biodiversity of the area by increasing threatening processes such as habitat loss, loss of hollowing trees which provide many homes for animals. And may also weaken the defence of the forest and weakens it so that diseases could kill the