Question 7001 — woods and forests

Summary

Mr. Michel Delpon draws the attention of the Minister of Agriculture and Food to the situation of oak sawyers. Exports of raw oak to China are constantly increasing, + 35% in January 2018 compared to the previous year and French oak sawmills are operating at 60% of their capacity due to lack of raw material. Today, 25 to 30% of the national forest oak collection is exported without processing while the majority of competing forest countries have banned such leakage of this raw resource. France has become the Eldorado of international starters. In just 10 years, the volumes of raw oak (oak logs) available to French sawmills have been halved. This situation endangers 200,000 French jobs in the wood processing sector, including 26,000 directly linked to oak sawmills. There are only 550 of them left in the country compared to more than 900 in 2005. Wood processing generates 10 to 20 times more jobs than the export of raw wood. Also, he asks him to take measures to limit exports of French raw wood in order to rebalance the supply of French sawmills and promote the national market and the export of processed products. “made in France” wood base.

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