"timber" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Only the prices of tropical timber, an increasingly scarce commodity, rose substantially (about 17 percent) from 1998 to 1999.
- Steps are at last being taken to create a formal structure for checking the sources of sustainably managed tropical timber.
- Japan, the largest importer of tropical timber, on Friday pledged $2 million that made the start of the project possible.
- There is also the corollary that the economic significance of tropical timber will ensure its survival (Cross 1988).
- Despite its concern, Europe is still the biggest importer of tropical timber.
- We should be buying tropical timber so that it remains valuable.
- The present impending wood famine may, the speaker said, be averted by the use of tropical timber.
- Instead, they seemed informed by commercial interests, with troops often placed in proximity to diamond mines and stands of tropical timber.
- The region currently supplies only 5 percent of the world's trade in tropical timber, most of it from Brazil.
- United Nations figures show tropical timber as worth $7.5 billion a year in an $85-billion-a-year global industry.
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