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GFTN’s guide to legal exports, Exporting in a Shifting Legal Landscape, is aimed at companies that currently export, or intend to export, forest products to the US market. It is designed to allow companies to assess their own performance and offers advice on how they can meet the needs of their customers in the United States.

The German federal procurement policy states that all wood and wood products purchased by the government must come from verifiably legal and sustainable sources, documented by third-party certification bodies or other specific evidence.

The Forest Trust created this industry-oriented guide primarily for high-level managers in producer/supplier companies to provide practical advice on excluding illegal and unwanted wood from the supply chain. It provides advice on developing and implementing a robust internal wood policy, and includes useful sample workplans and a list of organizations that can help companies achieve targets.

This guide was developed by WWF’s Global Forest & Trade Network (GFTN) for use by a purchasing organization wishing to develop a program for the responsible purchasing of forest products. The guide lays out a generic approach for the development and implementation of a responsible purchasing policy. The guide is aimed at any medium-size or large enterprise, including primary mills, secondary processors, importers, manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers, that purchase or procure forest products. In appropriate circumstances it may also serve to guide smaller enterprises.

The manual outlines various ways in which purchasing organizations can demonstrate compliance with best practice and their own purchasing policies, based on advice compiled by WWF’s Global Forest and Trade Network. It is aimed at medium-sized to large enterprises, including primary mills, secondary processors, importers, manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers, which purchase or procure forest products.

In collaboration with TRAFFIC and NEPCon, WWF Denmark and WWF Russia developed this legality verification checklist for traders dealing in forest products from Russia.

Responding to increasing concerns over the legal and sustainable origin of timber products, a number of Timber Trade Federations (TTFs) have developed codes of conduct and responsible purchasing policies. Such policies help individual member companies and the timber industry to continuously improve the availability of transparent information and improve assurances of the legal and sustainable source of raw materials.

This WRI/WBCSD publication is an information and decision-making tool to help customers develop their own sustainable procurement policies for wood and paper-based products. It also has information on existing approaches to procurement from legal and sustainable sources.

This toolbox offers members of the Netherlands Timber Trade Association and timber importers in other countries tools that can help them to assure legal compliance and chain of custody integrity of timber supplies, with an emphasis on Indonesia. The tools are associated with auditor companies who developed systems for legal compliance and timber tracking for Chain of Custody (CoC) integrity.

This simple, interactive online risk assessment tool, developed by the Tropical Timber Action Plan, outlines four steps to help companies assess their risk of inadvertently buying illegally produced timber products.