Another partner in the Forest Legality Alliance is the International Wood Products Association, an industry trade group that represents 200 companies, mostly in the United States.

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Brent McClendon, Executive Vice President, he says taking steps to assure legal trade makes good sense for the environment and for business "By doing more trade, you are doing in the forest.

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And so,once we get out there in the alliance and we start talking about the value that increased trade brings for forest protection, then it's going to allow us to sell the message so that architects and designers can increasingly specify imported wood products.

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Given these conditions, legal trade in ivory would disproportionately threaten both African forest elephants and Asian elephants.

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The measures introduced by the EUTR form part of the Bloc's Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) action plan, which was published in 2003.

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Forest rangers are provided the tools of the trade to perform their jobs better.

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