ATIBT promotes the sustainable, ethical and legal tradeof tropical timber as a natural and renewable resource. This activity is key for the socio-economic development of producing countries, and for consuming countriesit is a valuable source of raw materials that are destined for various industrial uses.
ATIBT provides professionals and the general public with a significant amount of institutional, technical and trade news on the major issues involving the tropical timber sector: the promotion of legality, sustainable forest management, improved industrial timber proces-sing methods and the promotion of lesser known species.
ATIBT’s technical expertise and plurality of skills is enhanced by the diversity of its membership base: private forest sector companies, industrial and commercial players, international and national institutions, States that have signed the ATIBT Convention, research institutes, professional and non-professional associa-tions and suppliers of equipment, transit, transport and other services related to the timber industry.
ATIBT acts in favour of the sustainable management of tropical forests and a healthy economy that promotes social development. It promotes and implements low-impact logging techniques for improved use of the resource.
It ensures improved knowledge of the raw material - wood - in terms of its use, industrialisation, consumption and promotion.It supports national and international forest certification systemsin order to enhance their transparency and credibility.
ATIBT is internationally recognized as the custodian of tropical wood nomenclature, in particular by the World Customs Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
