Global trade of forest products goes on despite coronavirus pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic has negatively impacted the supply chains for numerous industry sectors worldwide the past few months.   [...]
June 3, 2020
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European organisations call for FLEGT measures to be extended and deepened
While there was broad support for the FLEGT process and the EUTR, there was also a call for the FLEGT [...]
June 3, 2020
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EU organisations to reaffirm their support for FLEGT and EUTR
Feedback received by the EC on their “fitness check” of the FLEGT and EUTR regulations indicates a high degree of [...]
June 1, 2020
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Impact of pandemic on Gabon’s timber sector
The Minister of Forests in Gabon has issued a letter with wide ranging advice and guidance for timber companies whom [...]
May 19, 2020
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Sharp drop in China’s tropical log imports
Tropical log imports in the first two months of 2020 amounted 1.30 million cubic metres, down 26% year on [...]
May 19, 2020
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Impact of pandemic on Ghana’s tropical timber sector
The economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic and the measures adopted to try and slow its [...]
May 11, 2020
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Impact of pandemic on African tropical timber market
Almost all African countries are reporting cases of the coronavirus and as the number of cases continues to grow more [...]
May 5, 2020
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Forestry companies in China increase overseas timber purchases in order to secure domestic supply
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread throughout the world, production in major wood-producing countries has stalled, the patterns [...]
May 4, 2020
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Shortage of imported timber throws Chinese wood industry into panic
The demand for imported wood in China's wood products industry has gradually recovered. However, on the one hand, overseas [...]
April 23, 2020
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Coronavirus: Skyrocketing timber prices in China as global supply falls sharply
In the recent period, coronavirus pandemic has reduced logging in many countries, overseas container costs and sea freight prices have [...]
April 20, 2020
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