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Since the beginning of 2020 the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA) has strengthened its oversight of Brazilian timber exports..... [more...]
The revised Policy for Association (PfA) complaint procedure – allowing for swifter processes and better outcomes for forests and people – will be tested in 2021...... [more...]
Claude Schnepf heads Scierie et Caisserie de Steinbourg, one of the leaders in the beech market in France with 75,000 m3 processed annually, a capacity which will soon increase to 100,000 m3 thanks to a major investment program. The company exports 70% of its turnover outside the EU (€ 21m in 2019), mainly to China, a market that Claude Schnepf has known for 25 years...... [more...]
A slight dip in EU27 tropical wood product imports in October is more worrying as it coincides with renewed signs of stress in the EU market in the last quarter of 2020...... [more...]
On 1 January 2021 China adjusted import tariffs on commodities including some of those in the most favored nation (MFN) category, conventional tariffs and provisional tariffs commodities...... [more...]
Resolute Forest Products plans to restart its sawmill in Ignace, Ont., starting February 8. The sawmill closed in 2019 as a result of poor market conditions...... [more...]
The measures to restrict logging provided by the Forest Damage Compensation Act threaten the supply of raw materials to the German wood industry...... [more...]
Imports of sawn tropical hardwood rose only 2% in October as imports for 2020 continue to lag far below those of 2019. The 13,491 cubic metres imported was more than 38%...... [more...]
