Untreated timber: market overview at UEEX on August 2022

Untreated timber sale by forestry of 8 regions of Ukraine is taken place at UEEX. Kyiv region has sold the largest volume.

For the month at UEEX trades by the direction of untreated timber, the following results were achieved:

• Exhibited volume of untreated timber amounted 322,39 thousand cubic meters;
• Were sold 194,91 thousand cubic meters of untreated timber;
• The value of timber sale is UAH 533,85 mln. (with VAT);;
• The State earned additional income for UAH 63,33 mln. (with VAT) more than the initially exhibited value of untreated timber.

Last month, untreated timber was sold in Kyiv, Volyn, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyi, Ternopil, Chernivtsi and Kirovohrad regions. The graph below shows the areas for the sale of untreated timber.

Common pine, European spruce and pine were sold the most, where their sales share in the overall structure was 38%, 15% and 10%, respectively. There were also the sale of such species as hanging birch, white fir, forest beech and others.

The graph below shows the structure of timber sales in the 5 largest regions.

The maximum increase of the starting price was fixed at the level of 383%. Taking into account, that the auction step is 1%, maximum number of steps were by the Common oak – 383; common ash – 271; forest beech - 145.

The graph shows wood species and their maximum values.

There were formed the final weighted average prices indexes for the August: