TITLE:
Republic of Congo’ Wood Products Exported to China: Insight of the Characteristics, Trends, and Perspectives for Sustainable Trade
AUTHORS:
Daniella Bienvenue Ondze, Min Tong, Richard K. Mendako
KEYWORDS:
Republic of Congo, China, Wood Products, Export, Sustainable Trade
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Forestry,
Vol.11 No.2,
April
27,
2021
ABSTRACT: Wood products trade sector remains crucial for many countries’ economies.
This is also for the Republic of Congo (RC) where wood is the second most
exported natural resource.In this study, we aimed to determine the predominant wood
products exported from the RC to China from 2007 to 2019, analyze the trends
related to this trade, compare the quantities of wood products exported to
China and other destinations, and determine the perspectives for the
sustainable trade. The descriptive study using graphs and tables,
non-parametric technique Kruskal-Wallis, pairwise comparisons, and SWOT
analysis made up the methodological basis for this study. IBM SPSS Statistics
26 software supported data processing. The results showed that logs were mainly exported to China, 92.585% of the three major wood
products quantity (Logs, Wet sawnwood, and Dried sawnwood). Volume
distributions between products categories differ significantly (Sig. = 0.000