Asia & Middle East

Overview of the Sustainable Tropical Timber Coalition’s annual conference

The EU’s Sustainable Tropical Timber Coalition held its annual conference in Paris on 26 September. The conference highlighted the [...]

India: October prices for imported and domestic wood products

    Latest prices for Indian teak, plywood and sawnwood - 16-31 October 2018     [...]

Vietnamese wood products exports to Europe expected to reach US$ 1 billion

More than 400 Vietnamese firms are exporting timber products to Europe, which is the 4th biggest market for Vietnam’s [...]

Certified tropical timber a key topic at the STTC conference

The EU’s Sustainable Tropical Timber Coalition held its annual conference in Paris on 26 September. The conference highlighted the [...]

Global pulp industry goes through prices decline

In the 2Q/18, global fiber prices indices dropped for the first time in five quarters, mainly because of the [...]

Signing of the FLEGT-VPA expected to rise Vietnamese timber products exports to the EU market

The signing of the Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Voluntary Partnership Agreement (FLEGT-VPA) between Vietnam and the European [...]

Vietnamese wood pellets export prices on decline

Wood pellet prices in Vietnam, one of main wood pellet supplying countries in South-East Asia, soared since September last [...]

Rising prices for Sarawak logs

Logs prices in Sarawak significantly increased due to higher demand from neighbouring Sabah, which banned timber exports since May this [...]

The European Union and Vietnam have finally signed the VPA

    On 19 October 2018, a voluntary partnership agreement (VPA) between the European Union and the Socialist [...]

The imports of wood pellets in Japan went up by 50%

The Japanese Forestry Agency announced the statistics for wood pellet supply in Japan for 2017.     Domestic [...]