On July 20, the American forest and Paper Association (AF & PA) released the monthly report on packaging paper and special packaging for June 2022. The report shows that compared with June 2021, the shipments of packaging paper and special packaging in June this year decreased by 4% year-on-year, and the total shipments in the first six months were basically the same as last year.

In addition, the industrial operating rate in June was 86.4%, a year-on-year decrease of 4.7 percentage points. The average operating rate in the first six months of this year was basically the same as that of last year (only an increase of 0.2 percentage points). The factory inventory at the end of June was basically the same as that of the previous month (only 182 tons), but increased by 9000 tons compared with June 2021.