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2010

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The Economic And Environmental Effects Of An Eu Ban On Illegal Logging Imports. Insights From A Cge Assessment, Francesco Bosello, Ramiro Parrado, Renato Rosa May 2010

The Economic And Environmental Effects Of An Eu Ban On Illegal Logging Imports. Insights From A Cge Assessment, Francesco Bosello, Ramiro Parrado, Renato Rosa

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Working Papers

Illegal logging is widely recognized as a major economic problem and one of the causes of environmental degradation. Increasing awareness of its negative effects has fostered a wide range of proposals to combat it by major international conservation groups and political organizations. Following the 2008 US legislation which prohibits the import of illegally harvested wood and wood products, the European Union (EU) is now discussing a legislation proposal which would ban illegal timber from the EU market. In this study we use the ICES computable general equilibrium model to estimate the reallocation of global demand and timber imports following the …