EU tropical timber trade faces double dip recession
Total EU27 (i.e. excluding the UK) import value of tropical wood and wood furniture products was US$2.48 [...]
January 18, 2021
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Demand for African tropical timber recovering but prices easing
As businesses in importing countries adapt to working with the coronavirus risk trade has started to revive and some FOB [...]
December 18, 2020
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EU27 tropical timber imports stronger than expected so far in 2020
Total EU27 (i.e. excluding the UK) import value of tropical wood and wood furniture products was US [...]
November 2, 2020
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Congo basin member states to ban timber exports
In a bid to stimulate the production of timber to the GDP of Central African States, members countries of the [...]
September 29, 2020
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EUTR and FLEGT are causing market shifts
The European timber trade regulation EUTR and the FLEGT agreement concluded with Indonesia are causing market shifts to a certain [...]
September 24, 2020
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African tropical timber: Asian buyers slowly returning; prices for EU market up
It has been reported that buyers for the Chinese and other Asian markets are slowly returning. The current emphasis is [...]
August 5, 2020
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No strong COVID-19 signs in EU tropical timber import data
EU27 (i.e. excluding the UK) tropical timber product imports continued to defy expectations of COVID-19 driven collapse in [...]
July 17, 2020
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Demand for African tropical timber weakens in Europe
The impact of pandemic control measures have hit West African timber producers across the region hard, coming as it has [...]
June 25, 2020
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No pandemic impact in March tropical timber trade data
The lack of any strong COVID signal in the tropical timber trade data to the end of March is more [...]
June 5, 2020
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EU tropical timber trade weakened before COVID lockdown
Having reached the highest level in more than a decade in October 2019, EU27+UK trade in tropical wood and [...]
June 2, 2020
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