Backlog of native wood exports grows as they await approval from IBAMA

Exports of native wood from Brazil through the ports of Rondônia and Pará have been stuck for about 90 days, awaiting Ibama’s approval for release.  There are around 3,500 containers parked in customs yards with nearly 90,000 cubic meters of high added value forest products, such as cumaru, ipê, jequitibá, angelim and rose cedar cuts.  It is affecting around 200 companies that estimate the value of the cargo at more than R$1.5 billion and claim they are incurring costs of US$150 per late cargo.

There are also trucks loaded with wood at the border posts between Brazil and Argentina, Uruguay and Peru, waiting for the same authorization. In these cases, the daily fine is US$ 300. The main destinations for ships leaving through the North of the country are France, Netherlands, Denmark, USA, Italy, Germany and Sweden. Some contracts have already been cancelled, and the loggers – who speak of “collapse” and “despair” because they cannot make money – have given vacations and prior notice to employees.

The situation reached this point after IBAMA was obliged, by order of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), in May, to resume issuing specific authorization for the export of native forest products, which made the process more rigid – and much longer. Before, the procedure was automatic, as the cargoes arrive at the ports already inspected and released by Organs state environmental agencies and the Federal Revenue.

Source: Valor Econômico

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