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Timber exports totaled LVL 754.878 million in January-August 2013, 86.3% more than in January-August 2012.

Latvia's main forest industry export partners were Sweden with 12.3% (LVL 107.86 million worth of forest industry production), Great Britain with 12.3% (LVL 107.21 million) and Germany with 12% (LVL 105.12 million) of total forest industry exports.

Forest industry imports amounted to LVL 269.903 million in the first eight months of 2013, 20% more than in the corresponding period in 2012, when the figure stood at LVL 224.764 million.

Latvia's main forest industry import partners were Lithuania with 21.2% (LVL 57.21 million), Poland with 12.9% (LVL 34.87 million), and Estonia with 11.3% (LVL 30.56 million) of total forest industry imports.