Europe has been known to distribute timber to the world so as to come up with the snazzy furniture designs through each continent. Timber is their key raw material mainly used to make majority of the furniture lines. However, a dispute on the proper timber resources is currently hounding the British government as illegal timber has been said to be imported and many are getting away with it.
There are laws to follow but loopholes as in any circular passed exists. Apparently the efforts are there to clamp down on these illegal importation of timber but surely, lawmakers will have their hands full trying to identify the illegal timber importation.
“Importers will be able to import millions of tonnes of illegal timber into this country because they can get away with it by ticking the right boxes – that is wrong,”
(Source) Telegraph.co.uk
