Wednesday, May 2, 2012

72.7% US RCP To China

72.7% of US recovered paper exports in February were sold to China, even though overall exports for the month declined vs January's total, according to figures from the US Dept of Commerce, Bureau of Census. China purchased 1.2 million tonnes in February, with more than half being old corrugated containers at 640,397 tonnes. The other half was mostly a mix of old newspapers and mixed papers. India followed with 123,369 tonnes and exports to Canada were quite low at 59,286.