As with many other goods and products, Australia and New Zealand are significant suppliers to one another’s pulp, paper and paper products industries. Source: IndustryEdge
The tables below provide an overview of the relevant exports to each country and the proportions of trade they represent.
Australia makes a significant and very consistent contribution to New Zealand’s imports of P&I paper grades. This is to be expected given the trans-Tasman integration of the corrugated packaging sector.
New Zealand makes a largely consistent contribution to Australia’s imported pulp supplies. As the later analysis shows, this is driven by the fibre cement pulp exports from OFS Tasman to the Australian building products manufacturing sector, including prominent firms like CSR and Weathertex and is virtually insurmountable from that supply position.
The significant share of the Australian corrugated packaging import market held by New Zealand (entirely supplied by OFS and mainly from OFS Kinleith) is also evident in the table.
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