The 1993-94 Annual Review and Assessment of the World Tropical
Timber Situation reports that declining global
production and imports have increased the chasm between exports
and imports to over 5.8 million metres cube.
Resource scarce, tropical timber exporting countries like India
and Thailand have now become net importers.
With Asian tropical countries axing fewer logs, Africa and Latin
America are emerging as important markets for
tropical timber, both for Europe and Asian giants like Japan,
China and Korea. The report says that these trends
are likely to continue to the turn of this century and beyond,
as'several. Asian producers plan to stabilise or further decrease log production, putting tremendous pressure on
tropical forests in Africa and Latin America.
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