READ MORE: How Florida wood traders navigate ban on repressive regime’s rare teak: Tree DNA tests. The December shipment of teak — loaded at a Myanmar port owned by an oligarch with close ties ...

The wood is cheaper than natural teak, and it doesn’t share the same water- and weather-resistant properties. Other natural woods exist that possess some of teak’s desirable qualities, like ...

Justice for Myanmar’s report shows that nearly half the 1,725 tons of teak imported to the U.S. last year after the coup was purchased by East Teak Fine Hardwoods in Donalds, S.C.

Myanmar began allowing private companies to set up teak and other timber plantations in 2006, ending a state monopoly on the industry. In 2014, the government banned exports of all raw timber ...

BANGKOK (AP) — American companies are still importing teak from Myanmar despite sanctions imposed after the military seized power last year, a report based on trade data said Tuesday. Teak is ...

Teak wood exports are being restricted as the Myanmar Government transfers operations from a government business to private enterprise. Only 20% of the volume is to be exported compared to last ...

Myanmar has beens famed for its teak wood for centuries. The British established shipyard there in the 18th century after depleting their own oak forests. The forest area with significant teak ...

With a Belgium-size area of forest lost between 2001 and 2018, the EIA predicts that Myanmar’s forests will disappear by 2035 if the current trend continues. This would be a serious blow for ...

A Myanmar logging elephant pulls a teak log across a shallow stream on Jan. 15, 2001, near Shwe Pyi Aye camp in the jungles of central Myanmar. DAVID LONGSTREATH AP Florida companies Teakdecking ...

More than 1,700 tons of teak — much of it evading economic sanctions — were exported to the United States from Myanmar after the Southeast Asian country’s military seized power in a coup ...

A report based on U.S. trade data shows American companies are still importing teak from Myanmar despite sanctions imposed after the military seized power.