Timber legality verification boosts Indonesian wood product exports
20 August 2014Indonesian wood products have continued to increase since the beginning of 2014 when the national timber legality assurance scheme (SVLK) became operational. In the first three months of this year exports of wood products totalled US$1.4bn billion, reports the International Tropical Timber Organization.
In 2012 exports of wood products were worth US$700m and in 2013 they totaled US$1.3bn.
The 2013 export trade in wood products from Indonesia was dominated by paper, plywood and pulp.
The value of wood product exports to Asian countries, such as Japan and China, is the highest at around US$1bn followed by the European Union, US$119m; America US$141m; Africa US$23m and the countries of Oceania US$75m.
