According to The Borneo Post, Malaysia’s Minister of Plantation Industries and Commodities has fixed an export value of RM$32.8 billion (US$7.77 billion) for the timber and timber products industry to reach by 2030.

Deputy Minister Willie Mongin stated that the timber industry accounts for the third highest contributor to the country’s agro-commodity sector, with export value of timber and timber products reaching $22.74bn (US$5.38bn) in 2021.

In that export value, Sarawak contributed 15%, with the main exports being plywood, timber and fibreboard, according to Deputy Minister Mongin.

He also mentioned that the income from timber royalties used to be $600 million (US$142 million), but it had decreased to $300m (US$71m) because the country’s “timber cannot be processed for one reason or another, whereas in the past, most of [their] timber came from the native forest”, as quoted by The Borneo Post.

The industry also faces the problem of harvesting Sarawak’s quality timber, since different timber species require different harvesting techniques.

But Deputy Minister Mongin hoped that the industry can obtain guidance from foreign countries, particularly Australia, in order to make the timber industry “more sustainable”, thus “increasing timber output in the upstream level”.

The Malaysian government is also rolling out initiatives to promote the overall sustainability of the timber value chain. Mongin cited the Forest Plantation Development Programme under the 12th Malaysian Plan as one example, and encouraged industry players to take advantage of such initiatives and contact the ministry to get their applications processed.

俄羅斯反應(yīng)
俄羅斯官方早些時(shí)候稱，西方“懲罰”雖然非常嚴(yán)重，但俄羅斯早已做好了準(zhǔn)備，俄羅斯會(huì)對(duì)各種“懲罰”進(jìn)行分析，做到逐一擊破，以保護(hù)俄羅斯的利益。
俄羅斯工業(yè)和貿(mào)易部提議，今年年底前，禁止向“不友好國家”出口木材及其系列制品。
造成的結(jié)果
（1）俄羅斯木制品產(chǎn)量下降40%
俄羅斯綠色和平組織森林部門負(fù)責(zé)人表示，最有可能情況是，到今年年底俄羅斯木制品的總產(chǎn)量將下降40%，甚至有可能減少70%，對(duì)高科技企業(yè)發(fā)展的投資可能幾乎完全停止。
與歐洲、美國和日本公司及消費(fèi)者的關(guān)系破裂，會(huì)使俄羅斯木材綜合體完全更依賴中國木材市場和中國投資者。
（2）俄羅斯將擴(kuò)大對(duì)亞洲國家的木材出口
俄羅斯《生意人》援引消息人士稱，俄羅斯林業(yè)企業(yè)不得不把產(chǎn)品出口從歐洲國家轉(zhuǎn)向亞洲國家，亞洲國家所占份額將會(huì)出現(xiàn)增長。圖片報(bào)道稱，雖然林業(yè)行業(yè)還沒有受到直接制裁，但俄企已經(jīng)面臨對(duì)歐木材出口封鎖。亞洲國家所占份額將不可避免地出現(xiàn)增長，但這需要時(shí)間。據(jù) WhatWood 公司數(shù)據(jù)，目前，中國是俄羅斯木材產(chǎn)品的主要進(jìn)口國，2020年，對(duì)華出口額占該公司出口總額的35%，歐洲占29%，獨(dú)聯(lián)體國家占19%。