在中国等亚洲国家需求的带动下,日本废纸、废钢铁等回收原料出口大幅增加。由于内需不旺,日本国内开工率较低,原材料加工工业萎缩,中国正在成为日本废旧原材料进口大国。日本废纸2002年出口量为189.7万吨,同比增长29％,连续两年创纪录增长。特别是在瓦楞纸方面,由于中国电器制品、服装、食品生产增长迅速,瓦楞纸是商品包装的重要原料,直接带动了对瓦楞纸的需求。由于日本纸张质量较好,而且与美国相比,运输时间短,中国瓦楞纸工厂自日本订货不断增加。 Driven by the demand from Asian countries such as China, the export of recovered raw materials such as scrap paper and scrap iron has risen sharply. Due to the weak domestic demand, lower operating rates in Japan and a shrinking raw material processing industry, China is becoming a major importer of used raw materials for Japan. Japan’s waste paper exports in January of 1897 million tons in 2002, an increase of 29%, a record two consecutive years of growth. Especially in corrugated paper, due to the rapid growth of China’s electrical products, clothing and food production, corrugated paper is an important raw material for commodity packaging, which directly drives the demand for corrugated paper. Due to the better quality of Japanese paper and the shorter shipping time compared with the United States, the number of corrugated paper mills in China has increased from Japanese orders.