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United
States
South Africa
China
Portugal
Turkey
UK
Belgium
Swiss
Confederation
Netherlands
Germany
Italy
France
Spain
Morocco
Cameroon
500
Major illegal wood trade
Thousand cubic metres of round wood equivalent
Republic
of Congo
500
Equatorial
Guinea
400
Gabon
700
To EU
To China
To other markets
Congo Basin countries
Million US dollars
Timber and wood products trade
380
250
65
10
Sources: International Trade Centre database, accessed 02.03.2010;
Estimates of the percentage of “Illegal Timber” in the imports of
wood-based
products from selected countries,
Global Timber, 2007; Ruiz
Pe´rez, M., Logging in the Congo Basin: A multi-country characterization
of timber companies, Forest Ecology and Management, 2005.
Wood exports from Congo Basin