Table 16.—Apparent consumption of industrial wood products 
(roundwood equivalent) in Brazil, 1954-60 
Apparent 
consumption 
Year Produc- | Imports | Exports | “ie 
tion | Propor- 
Quantity! tion of 
| produc- 
tion 
Million | Million | Million | Million Pores 
cubic feet cubic feet\cubic feet cubic feet ree 
1 et: Rea (aes sea) 18.0 | 18. 4 134.6 | 99.9 
1955........| 484.4 Ppl Wee PRL 148. 8 92.7 
LO5Os.. 2 oe hae 39. 6 | 12. 4 407.5 99.3 
OEY aie | 418.8| 47.0] 86.7] 379.1 90.5 
LOSS ies | 42009 37.4) 69.2 395. 1 92.6 
O50 Ree. ve (1) Sos) ole (") (*) 
LOGO aes (*) 3650))|" 675955 (‘) (*) 
1954-58 
average... | 135. 1 11.8 63.9 113.0 94.9 
Table 17.—Estimated annual per capita consumption of ‘ood 
products for Brazil, United States, and South America, — 
1957-59 average $ 
pe ws = 4 
Product Brazil | United | South — 
States |America — 
Industrial wood !,...cubie feet..| 6.4 59. 0 6.7 
nel wood... sare eee do... .| 49. 4 9.2 34.3 
Total wood....... do 55. 8 68. 2 41.0 
Tonmberoe ee ate board feet. .| 36 | 212 28 
Plywood............cubic feet..} 0.05 1. 62 0.05 
Newspritts... 5.5 a pounds..| 8 ra 8 
Other paper and paperboard 
doves aiele 326 20 
Total paper.......do....| 26 403 28 
Piberbvoard.. er: a do... 5 |) alo 20.1 ey 
1 Not available. 
FOREST PRODUCTS IN FOREIGN TRADE 
In recent years Brazil’s total imports have been 
generally about 10 percent greater in value than 
exports. Value of forest products exports. however. 
has been 70 percent greater than that of forest 
products imports (table 18). More than two-thirds 
of these exports were shipped to three countries: 
Table 18.—Value! of Brazilian foreign trade in forest products, 1959-61 
! Roundwood equivalent of industrial wood products. 
Argentina, which took about two-thirds of the Parana 
pine lumber: the United States, where half of the 
palm waxes and Brazil nuts went: and the United 
Kingdom. Parana pine lumber. palm waxes. Brazil 
£ I I 
nuts. and maté accounted for nearly nine-tenths of 
Almost 97 
the value of all forest products exports. 
Imports Exports 
Product 
1959 1960 1961 | 1959-61 average 1959 1960 | 1961 | 1959-61 average 
| 
Thou- Thou- Thou- Thou- Thou- Thou- Thou- Thou- 
sand | sand sand sand sand sand sand sand 
dollars | dollars | dollars | dollars | Percent | dollars | dollars | dollars | dollars | Percent 
Wood productsi: « .2)-1-1-)-loe <= 33 527 179 246 0.4 | 42,411 | 47,121 | 52,213 | 47,248 49. 7) 
Woodpul ps ict. cv a)-eieitiowsoe 15, 168 | 12,869 | 12,398 | 13,478 24.2 | 0 37 440 159 2 
Paper and paperboard. ...... 34, 726 | 37, 703) 33,673 | 35, 367 63.4 2 154 dil 89 : 
INavalistores® |... dni renee 2,844 | 3,89] 1,385 | 3,706 6.6 0 0 0 0 0 
Brazil nuts and maté........ 0 0 0 0 0 20, 799 | 23,685 | 25,376 | 23,287 24, 
Other nonwood products......| 2,827 3,405 | 2,785 3. 006 5.4 | 22,449 | 26, 076 24,230 | 24, 252 25.5 
Motalien o: c,h eee 559 8ules 86395 53, 420 | 55, 803 100.0 | 85,661 | 97,073 |102,370 | 95,035 100. 
Proportion of all imports or Percent | Percent | Percent Percent Percent | Percent | Percent Percent 
EXPOLtsS! jo. ee eek 4.0 4.0 ai 1 3.9 6.6 ewe Tp} ‘lois 
Pane | 
1 Value in U.S. dollars. 
34 FOREST RESOURCE REPORT 16, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
