由于亚洲的纸浆购买力不见起色，北美和北欧五大纸浆生产国的纸浆库存增加了，他们原先打算1998年7月份提价的希望落空。纸浆市场观望气息浓厚，国际大纸浆厂曾宣布7月份把纸浆的价格每吨调高50美元，但6月底欧美五大生产国的库存比5月底增加了5．8万t，达到150万t，虽然还在产 As pulp purchasing power in Asia has not improved, the stocks of pulp in the five major pulp producing countries in North America and Northern Europe have increased. The hope that they had originally planned to raise prices in July 1998 failed. The pulp market has a strong wait-and-see atmosphere. The international pulp mill has announced that the price of pulp was increased by 50 US dollars per ton in July, but the inventory of the five major European and American countries increased by 58,000 tons at the end of June to 1.5 million tons. Although still producing