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ITTO3

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FOREST SECTOR QUESTIONNAIRE

Miscellaneous Items

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1

Please enter current import tariff rates applied to tropical and non-tropical timber products.  If available, please provide tariffs by the relevant customs classification category.  If tariff levels have been reported in previous years, enter changes only. (Logs = JQ code 1.2, Sawn = JQ code 5, Veneer = JQ code 6.1, and Plywood = JQ code 6.2)

Current import tariff

Logs

Tropical:

Sawn

Tropical:

Veneer

Tropical:

Plywood

Tropical:

Non-Tropical:

Non-Tropical:

Non-Tropical:

Non-Tropical:

Comments (if any):

2

Please comment on any quotas, incentives, disincentives, tariff/non-tariff barriers or other related factors which now or in future will significantly affect your production and trade of tropical timber products.

3

Please elaborate on any short or medium term plans for expanding capacity for (further) processing of tropical timber products in your country.

4

Please indicate any trends or changes expected in the species composition of your trade.  How important are lesser-used tropical timber species and/or minor tropical forest products?

5

Please indicate trends in domestic building activity, housing starts, mortgage/interest rates, substitution of non-tropical wood and/or non-wood products for tropical timbers, and any other domestic factors having a significant impact on tropical timber consumption in your country.

6

Please indicate the extent of foreign involvement in your timber sector (e.g. number and nationalities of concessionaires/mill (joint) owners, area of forest allocated, scale of investment, etc.).

7

Please provide details of any relevant forest law enforcement activities (e.g. legilation, fines, arrests, etc.) in your country in the past year.

8

Please indicate the current extent of forest plantations in your country (ha), annual establishment rate (ha/yr) and proportion of industrial roundwood production from plantations.