Wood exports from Congo Basin

United States

Belgium Swiss Confederation Portugal Morocco Spain UK

France

Netherlands Germany Italy

China

Turkey

Congo Basin countries

Main wood importers from Congo Basin Million US dollars

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.

Timber and wood products trade

South Africa

Major illegal wood trade

Thousand cubic metres of round wood equivalent

To EU To China To other markets

700

700

500

500

Cameroon

500

500

Republic of Congo

400

400

Equatorial Guinea

Gabon

29