Global Timber Trade - Information
Lao PDR

Imports of timber from Lao PDR as reported by importing countries
Sources based on: General Administration of Customs of the People's Republic of China, The Customs Department of the Kingdom of Thailand, UN Comtrade and others[Footnote 2]


The following six charts are based on:
 General Administration of Customs of the People's Administration of China
Note: "location of importer" might be the address of an agent, head office, mill/factory etc.

China's imports of logs from Lao PDR - by "customs district"



China's imports of "rosewood" logs from Lao PDR - by "location of importer"


 

China's imports of logs other than "rosewood" from Lao PDR - by "location of importer"


 

China's imports of sawn wood from Lao PDR - by "location of importer"


 

China's imports of sawn rosewood from Lao PDR - by "location of importer"

China's imports of sawn wood other than "rosewood" from Lao PDR - by "location of importer"


 

Laos

 

Suggested reading:
"Crossroads - The Illicit Timber Trade Between Laos and Vietnam" EIA (07 2011)
"Checkpoints - How Powerful Interest Groups Continue to Undermine Forest Governance in Laos" EIA (09 2012)
"Rubber Barons - How Vietnamese and International Financiers are Driving a Landgrabbing Crisis in Cambodia and Laos" Global Witness (04 2013)
"Land Concessions, Land Tenure, and Livelihood Change: Plantation Development in Attapeu Province, Southern Laos" K M Kenney-Lazzar (2010)
"Study for Understanding Timber Flows and Controls in Lao PDR" K Grace, S Prixar and K Phengsopha (08 2012)
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