Peru Government Acts to Improve Tracking, Ensure Legality of Timber Exports, USTR Says
The government of Peru plans to amend export documentation to improve tracking of timber through supply chains, implement pre-export inspections and improve the “accuracy” of yearly forest management plans, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative said (here) after officials…
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of both nations attended a meeting in Lima last week of the U.S.-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement (PTPA)'s Subcommittee on Forest Sector Governance and the Environmental Affairs Council (EAC). Peruvian EAC initiatives between 2016 and 2021 include protecting biological diversity, sustainably managing coastal and marine areas and strengthening environmental institutions, USTR said. U.S. and Peruvian officials also announced the hiring of Dino Delgado to serve as the executive director of the PTPA’s independent secretariat, a role in which he will review public submissions regarding environmental law enforcement. “While Peru has made important progress under the PTPA to combat illegal logging, there is still much more work to be done,” U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman said in a statement. “I am encouraged by the concrete actions announced by the Peruvian government, including new actions to help ensure that the timber exported from Peru is legally harvested. For the sake of our forests, our global environment, and our shared future, we will continue to closely monitor the situation in Peru and work closely with them to advance environmental progress.”