Markets for bamboo products in the West

摘要

In the last decade, industrially processed bamboo began to compete successfully with wood products for the developed Western markets. However, because of the novelty of industrial bamboo products and due to a lack of consistent statistical data on their trade and consumption, it is unclear how large the current and potential market for bamboo in the European Union and the United States really is. This paper analyses available trade databases, market studies and empirical information to estimate the size of the current and potential bamboo market, using the current wood market as substitute market in the latter case.