In the first ten months of 2017, Russia increased its sawn timber exports again, both in value and in volume terms, indicate the statistics published by the Russian Federal Customs Office. Thus, during the first ten months of the current year Russia exported 15.21 million tonnes of sawn timber. That is 12.09% more than during the respective period of the last year. The total value of the exported Russian sawn timber increased as well. In January-October 2017 it came up to $3.33 billion having gone up by 25.48%.