Legislating trade in forest products

Trade in forest products should be based on non-discriminatory and multilaterally agreed rules and procedures consistent with international trade law and practices.

1. Using forest resources sustainably
2. Tightening export controls
3. Strengthening trade law
4. Developing international environmental law

1. Protesting woodchipping of native forests

1. Managing hardwood forests
2. Improving trade in forest products
3. Developing ethnopharmacology
4. Certifying wood

1. Protesting sale of tropical timber
2. Monitoring timber production
3. Ensuring compatibility of environmental and trade law

1. Using available timber resources
2. Rolling back environmental legislation
3. Removing tariff barriers on forest products
4. Extracting timber
5. Causing extinction of rainforest species
6. Avoiding legislation on trade in forest products

1. Liberalizing trade in forest products

1. Unsustainable development of forest lands
2. Unethical practices in forestry
3. Logging of protected areas of forest
4. Exploitation of forest biological resources