Less deinking and more packaging – recovered paper sector facing new challenges

In order to stimulate the economy, the Chinese government has adjusted import and export tariffs for many products as of 1 January 2023. Among other things, provisional import tariffs on 1,020 items, including many types of paper, were reduced below the previous MFN (“most favoured nation”) tariff rate. According to a...

According to an office memorandum which EUWID has seen, India has revised the rules governing recovered paper imports. When the new regulation will take effect, is not clear. “It can happen very quickly from one day to the next,” an expert explained to EUWID. According to the memorandum, the limit for non-paper...

At the start of the new year, prices in several segments of the French paper and board market were renegotiated, resulting in lower prices in many cases. Producers perceived demand as being weak to very weak across the board, for containerboard as well as cartonboard alike. Inventory depletion by buyers in many market...