European buyers showing more interest in African timbers
Producers in the Central/West African region are reporting firm demand for padouk, okoume, ovangkol and even gheombi, a timber [...]
July 7, 2022
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EU tropical timber trade faces recession
Total EU27 (i.e. excluding the UK) import value of tropical wood and wood furniture products was US$2.48 [...]
January 21, 2021
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African tropical timber in rising demand but prices easing
As businesses in importing countries adapt to working with the coronavirus risk trade has started to revive and some FOB [...]
January 4, 2021
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EU tropical timber imports stronger than expected
Total EU27 (i.e. excluding the UK) import value of tropical wood and wood furniture products was US$1.98 [...]
November 9, 2020
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States from the Congo Basin to ban timber exports
In a bid to stimulate the production of timber to the GDP of Central [...]
October 5, 2020
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Asian buyers of African tropical timber slowly returning; prices for EU market up
It has been reported that buyers for the Chinese and other Asian markets are slowly returning [...]
August 20, 2020
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African tropical timber exports driven down by pandemic
The rapid spread of the coronavirus has adversely affected West Africa’s export markets, imports, foreign investment, tourism and remittances [...]
August 10, 2020
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European demand for African tropical timber weakens
The impact of pandemic control measures have hit West African timber producers across the region hard, coming as it has [...]
July 6, 2020
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Cautious optimism in UK hardwood market
Insights into the status of the UK sawn hardwood market came from a webinar organised by [...]
June 28, 2020
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No pandemic impact in March EU tropical timber trade data
The lack of any strong COVID signal in the tropical timber trade data to the end [...]
June 17, 2020
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