America’s Free Trade for Illegal Timber

As this report is published, the US is cementing economic partnerships which could further speed the destruction of South-East Asian and Latin American forests.

The list of looming US Free Trade Agreements reads like a who’s who of states involved in the global illegal logging epidemic –  Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Peru and Central America.

We urge the US to make the banning of the import of illegal timber a priority.

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