Please
"click" on the following hyperlinks for charts and/ or commentary
Should
the EU-ITTO Independent Market Monitor et al focus on this?
Peak
palm oil - is the market for palm oil saturated?
Surge in USA's imports of palm oil
from Indonesia 2013-15
Woody
biomass - replacing coal with wood same GHG emissions
REDD
- deforestation and climate change
EU
imports of wood pellets for fuel and Renewable Energy Obligations
Due
diligence and the EU's "Illegal Timber" regulation
Link to duediligencetimber.eu
Illegal
Timber
EU
FLEGT initiative
FLEG
and China
Which
ten bilateral trade flows have most salience to international effort
against Illegal Timber?
Overviews of the
Illegal Timber imports of: Japan,
the UK, and the USA (forthcoming)
A
summary of China's illegal timber imports and exports
China's
illegal timber imports and exports
G8
illegal timber imports and exports
Roundwood
equivalent volumes and sources of trade statistics
Wood
balance assessment
EUROPEAN
UNION
Romania
AFRICA
Benin
Cameroon
Central
African Republic
Congo (Brazzaville) DR
Congo
Equatorial Guinea Gabon
Ghana Guinea-Bissau
Ivory Coast Liberia
Nigeria Sierra Leone Togo
Other significant tropical timber exporting countries in the region
include Madagascar and, occasionally, Guinea. The quantity of tropical
timber that these countries export is small relative to the leading
African exporters. China is the principal destination for timber exports
from East Africa, particularly Mozambique.
EAST
ASIA and OCEANIA
China
Indochina
Indonesia
Laos Malaysia
Myanmar PNG
Solomon
Islands Eastern
Russia Vietnam
China
Flooring IPO
Trade
from Indonesia & Malaysia to China
USA~China
timber/furniture trade
China
and the USA's imports of plywood and wooden furniture
China's
imports of "rosewood" logs
China's
imports of merbau
AMERICA
Belize,
Guyana, Panama,
Peru, Suriname
India
(tropical timber and palm oil)
ITTO
China's
crude oil imports from Africa
Further information -
duediligencetimber.info
and
flegtactionplan.info
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