Proceedings
View PublicationWith the support from SFA, the US State Department & USTR, the Sino-US Bilateral Forum and Asia Pacific Network of Sustainable Forest
Management and Rehabilitation (APFNet), as a contribution to the US-China Strategic Economic Dialogue co-hosted International Workshop on Policies on Trade in Timber and Timber Products on December 6-7, 2008 at the International Bamboo and Rattan Hotel in Beijing right after the 5th Sino-US SED. The Nature Conservancy (TNC), Forest Trends, and 3 other Chinese industry associations are co-hosts. More than 180 participants attended the meeting, including large crowd of Chinese export-oriented wood industry
representatives, government officials from China, US, Australia, EU, UK, and Indonesia, industry
associations and business from these countries, NGOs and experts from Academic and research
institutions.