Green Carbon, Black Trade

Wood exports from Congo Basin

United States

China

Netherlands

Belgium

UK

Swiss Confederation

Germany

France

Italy

Turkey

Portugal

Morocco

Spain

Million US dollars Timber and wood products trade

Major illegal wood trade Thousand cubic metres of round wood equivalent

380 250

South Africa

To EU To China To other markets

65 10

Congo Basin countries

700 0

500 0

500 0

400 0

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.

Equatorial Guinea

Gabon

Cameroon

Republic of Congo

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