EU-Vietnam timber pact’s licensing rules probed by US trade panel
By Kat Lucero ( December 28, 2020, 23:19 GMT | Insight) -- The effectiveness of Vietnam’s timber licensing system — set up in October as part of an EU timber trade agreement — was questioned today by a US multiagency trade panel investigating charges of illegal timber use in the manufacture of furniture products from the Southeast Asian country.The effectiveness of Vietnam’s timber licensing system — set up in October as part of an EU timber trade agreement — was questioned today by a US multiagency trade panel investigating charges of illegal timber use in the manufacture of furniture products from the Southeast Asian country....
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