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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