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International Tropical Timber Organization INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS CENTER,5TH FLOOR, PACIFICO-YOKOHAMA1-1-1, MINATO-MIRAI, NISHI-KU, YOKOHAMA, 220-0012, JAPAN itto-mis@mail.itto-unet.ocn.ne.jp Tropical Timber Market Report 1 - 15th June 2000 Contents International Log Prices p2 Domestic Log Prices p3 International Sawnwood Prices p3 Domestic Sawnwood Prices p5 International Ply and Veneer Prices p5 Domestic Ply and Veneer Prices p6 Other Panel Product Prices p7 Prices of Added Value Products p7 Rubberwood and Furniture Prices p8 Report From Japan p9 Report From Korea p11 Report From China p12 An Update On theUK p14 US Hardwood Supply Trends p16 Abbreviations and Currencies p20 Report on the Annual Market Discussion p18 Appendix: Tropical Timber Product Price Trends Statement by the Trade made to the 28th Session of the International Tropical Timber Council, Lima, Peru The Informal Trade Group, comprising trade members of Delegations from both Producer and Consumer countries, would like to express its gratitude to the ITTC for the opportunity to highlight important areas of concern in the tropical timber trade during the Annual Market Discussions. This provided an extremely useful forum in which to exchange views with distinguished delegates and enabled a number of recommendations to be made regarding future priority areas for action by the ITTO which we trust will be seriously considered by the ITTC. In this regard,we would particularly draw the attention of distinguished delegates to some of the important issues raised: the need to improve the quality of statistical information available on the trade in tropical timber products the need to consider further ways of helping producer countries to begin and/or increase their production and trade of value added products through ITTO project activities the need for ITTO to provide guidance to memb