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EU tropical Timber market trends 2022
More market mayhem The situation in key EU sales markets for tropical timber and timber products has remained buoyant but tense in the first few months of 2022, according to IMM trade survey respondents, with demand frequently still exceeding supply, despite sharp...

EU tropical Timber market trends 2022
More market mayhem The situation in key EU sales markets for tropical timber and timber products has remained buoyant but tense in the first few months of 2022, according to IMM trade survey respondents, with demand frequently still exceeding supply, despite sharp...
Covid-19 puts Europe into lockdown and rewrites economic forecasts
Report from ITTO Market Information Service (Volume 24 No 6): Economic forecasts issued only a few...
FLEGT licensed products biggest winners in EU tropical wood market
Overall the EU’s trade in tropical wood and wood furniture products was more buoyant in the first...
Ghana industry launches FLEGT communication drive
The Ghanaian timber sector has unveiled a marketing initiative to communicate legality and...
New company eco-label embraces FLEGT and certification
Fort Builders Merchant, a new business just launched by former UK Timber Trade Federation...
UK TTF Tropical Timber Forum: Sustainability and Sales
As the title Reducing risk, improving supply suggests, the UK Timber Trade Federation’s recent...
Highway to hardwood market growth
If steel and concrete road fixtures and fittings, including lamp and signposts, crash and acoustic...
IMM analysis of Indonesian timber imports – growth primarily in pulp, fuel wood and paper
While still dwarfed by domestic production and exports, Indonesia’s imports of timber and timber...
IMM Annual Report highlights progress in overcoming market constraints to FLEGT-licensed timber
The first IMM EU trade survey in 2017 identified several administrative issues that may have had...
Increasing “level of exposure” to verification of EU trade flows
Assessing the current availability of third party verified products in the EU market is...
IMM 2018 Annual Report: FLEGT VPA Partners in EU Timber Trade 2018
IMM’s latest Annual Report, “FLEGT VPA Partners in EU Timber Trade 2018”, shows that the combined...
IMM H1/2019 Summary Newsletter
The IMM project has published a newsletter summarizing highlights of its research and activities...
Statistical overview of EU VPA Partner Country trade
Charts 1 to 6 below provide a statistical summary of EU tropical timber imports between...
EU timber imports from Indonesia increase in value terms
The EU imported 423,000 metric tonnes (MT) of wood products from Indonesia in the year...
EU imports of tropical wood products gain momentum in 2019
After a dip in 2017 and the early months of 2018, EU imports of tropical wood products recovered...
Vietnam aims to have TLAS in place in 2020
Vietnam expects to have its VPA timber legality assurance system in place within two years, its...
VPA implementation: Honduras and EU agree on 2019 work plan
The Honduran government and the EU have approved Honduras’s FLEGT VPA 2019 annual operation plan...
Tropical timber marketing collaboration focused on third-party certified timber
The Sustainable Tropical Timber Coalition (STTC) and ATIBT’s Fair & Precious (F&P)...
ATIBT lays out action plans for tropical timber
At its January think tank International Tropical Timber Technical Association (ATIBT)...
EU-Indonesia trade to November 2018
The EU imported 422,000 metric tonnes (MT) of wood products from Indonesia in the year ending...
Sharp rise in dollar value of EU tropical timber imports
After a dip in 2017, EU imports of tropical wood products recovered ground in 2018. Most of the...
FLEGT in global tropical timber trade during 2018
Video of IMM presentation providing an overview of the global tropical timber trade and commenting...