Indonesia is pushing for the elimination of a reciprocal tariff imposed by the United States on Indonesian furniture and craft products. All furniture products entering the US are subject to a sectoral tariff of 3 percent. This would surge to 35 percent if the US's 32 percent rec...

Of a total of 190.5 billion CFA francs from project loans this year, Gabon plans to allocate 59% to the fields of roads, construction and public works, that is, 36.9% of the total loan are dedicated to road infrastructure and 22.1% to construction.

Brazil's cultivated tree industry posted record-breaking results in 2024, reaching a trade surplus of USD 15.7 billion, up 23.5% compared to 2023, according to Mosaico Ibá, a bulletin from the Brazilian Tree Industry (Ibá).

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 ...