FAS Lima assisted the Foreign Commercial Service with its Alabama Commercial Trade Mission, creating export opportunities for U.S. forest product exporters. Sources estimate that Peru will import about $290 million in forest products in calendar year (CY) 2014, up by 10 percent from the previous year. At FAS Lima, we find that the local construction sector’s demand for forest products has doubled during the past five years; driven by the country’s continued strong economic performance which has seen real GDP growth averaging 5.5 percent [2009-13]. Peru is keen to purchase U.S. southern yellow pine and plywood.
