In this low-carbon economy, with the rapid rise of the price of forest carbon sink, the price of raw timber will rise quickly, which will pose a threat to the trade security of Chinese woody forest products. This paper indicates that, the enterprises engaging in trade of woody forest products mainly deal with processing trade in China, which lies in the manufacturing sector of the global value chain but not the whole value chain. Therefore, trade security issues of woody forest products in China are particularly special. It requires us not only to pay attention to trade security of timber, but also to focus on trade security of woody forest products, that is, security of production capacity. In this sense, we need pay close attention to the difficulties faced by the enterprises engaging in processing trade of woody forest products. Furthermore, based on a theoretical framework, this paper shows that, three different types of participation behavior in global value chain will affect enterprise earnings, thus the issues of their trade security are naturally different too.
