On 04 April 2025, ITTO Trade and Markets Day was held in Costa Rica, serving as a vital platform for discussing transformative trends in tropical timber trade.

First AnnouncementGlobal Legal & Sustainable Timber Forum, GLSTF 2025From Forest to Home – An International Dialogue on Emerging Consumer Trends and Supply Chains Innovation23-24 September 2025,MGM COTAI, Macao SAR, ChinaBackgroundRecent development shows that the timber indu...

Global Legal & Sustainable Timber Forum (GLSTF) 2024 has been honored with the Brand Convention Award at the “Macao Convention and Exhibition Commendation Awards 2024” ceremony.

The 60th Session of the International Tropical Timber Council (ITTC60) started on December 2, 2024, in Yokohama, Japan.

Paraguay, a landlocked country of 7 million people, is home to much of the Gran Chaco forest, which is considered the second largest forested landscape in South America — second only to the Amazon rainforest. And like other countries which are home to the great forests of South A...

In 2010, the Gabonese government issued a ban on logs exports. Ten years later, Gabon becomes a demonstration model for the subregion in terms of its industrialization of timber sector.From January 1, 2022, all member states of the Central African Economic and Monetary Community ...

In 2019, the total value of tropical timber products (including direct imports and imports through third countries such as China) imported by EU increased by 7%, about 4.16 billion euros. This is another increase after the increase of 2% in 2018.The proportion of tropical timber ...

Recently, the famous American hardwood magazine Global Hardwood Review summarized the performance of the American hardwood industry in 2019. 2019 is a difficult year for the industry. Affected by the US-China trade war and the global economic downturn, the global sales of America...