Viet Nam's Plantation Timber Supply Chain: Good Practices to Promote Trade of Legal and Sustainable Timber Products

This report was prepared by the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) under the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) project "Analysis of Timber Legality Assurance Systems and Good Practices in China and Viet Nam for Sustainable Timber Trade''. This ITTO project was made possible by funding from the Japanese government.

This report aims to promote legal and sustainable timber trade by identifying good practices of Vietnamese timber producers and companies to support due diligence and generate recommendations for stakeholders in import countries. In this study, good practices are considered models/measures that support legal and sustainable timber trade by enhancing the transparency and traceability of the supply chain and supporting a verifiable basis for legal claims.