11.   Malaysia is calling for industrial countries to compensate tropical timber producers for introducing sustainable forest management.

12.   Producers, he said, need appropriate and adequate incentives for their efforts in producing sustainable tropical timber products.

13.   Tropical timber producers have been pressing for the ITTA, which expires next year, to be replaced by a comprehensive agreement that also covers wood from temperate forests.

14.   These illicit businesses are reported to include drug trafficking, kidnapping, car theft, selling tropical timber and smuggling Mayan archeological artifacts.

15.   Although there is no argument that deforestation in developing countries will continue, the World Bank is of the opinion that the tropical timber trade will decline.

16.   And like Bourke, he believes that environmental pressures are shaping the direction of the tropical timber trade.

17.   AND we had thought - and hoped - that this guerilla warfare against tropical timber would have ended with Vienna.

18.   And tropical timber producing countries like Malaysia cannot be faulted if they are highly suspicious of the Dutch move.

19.   But according to the Malaysian Timber Council, more countries are succumbing to the green pressure to restrict the use of tropical timber.

20.   Following protests from Malaysia and other tropical timber producing nations, Austria had decided to shelve the idea.