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United
States
South Africa
China
Portugal
Turkey
UK
Belgium
Swiss
Confederation
Netherlands
Germany
Italy
France
Spain
Morocco
Cameroon
500
0
Major illegal wood trade
Thousand cubic metres of round wood equivalent
Republic of
Congo
500
0
Equatorial
Guinea
400
0
Gabon
700
0
To EU
To China
To other markets
Congo Basin countries
Million US dollars
Timber and wood products trade
380
250
65
10
Sources: InternationalTrade 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
Perez, M., A multi-country characterization of timber companies, Forest
Ecology and Management, 2005.
Wood exports from Congo Basin