Month: December 2010

The latest EU-wide trade data indicates that imports of tropical hardwood logs into the region have continued to fall during the course of 2010 (Table 1). Overall imports during the first nine months of 2010 amounted to only 253,300 m3, that’s 22% down on the same period the previous year. The big decline in imports from Gabon following that country’s log export ban imposed from May 2010 onwards has been only partially offset by rising imports from other countries in the Congo basin.