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Research of Measures Taken to Illegal Logging Issues in Consumer Nations Survey Results (Outline)

3.Results of Survey

(4) Lacey Act

(A) Actions corresponding to requirements of Lacey Act, i.e., prohibition of trading wood/wood products using overseas illegally-harvested timber and exercise of “due care” (Multiple answers accepted, Total number of respondents: 29)
Regarding how to check illegally-harvested overseas timber, 22 respondents replied “conducting periodical documents examinations” and 17 answered “visiting suppliers for on-site inspection”. Others includes “requesting timber supplier to submit certificate of forest certifications such as FSC” and “requiring overseas suppliers annually signatures on the certificates of Lacey Act compliance”.

AnswersN.A.EUOthersTotal
Conduct documents examination1011122
Visit suppliers to conduct on-site inspection79117
Others74011

(B) Influence on business of exercising “due care” in Lacey Act
The rate of answer “Due care considerably affected business” stays at low with only 3 respondents out of 29, all of those raised “cost increase” and “procurement policy change” as the main points of the influence of due care exercise. Among the 13 who responded “slightly affected”, 9 chose “cost increase” which is followed by “procurement policy change” raised by 6 and “suppliers’ change” by 4. The rest of 13 answered “not affected”. From this result, it can be said that each individual company is taking any actions to cope with due care exercise.

AnswersN.A.EUOthersTotal
Due care considerably affected our business1113
Due care slightly affected our business58013
Due care did not affected our business94013

What were the considerable affects?

AnswersN.A.EUOthersTotal
Increased management workload/cost1113
Changed items of marketing products1001
Changed timber suppliers1012
Changed customers1001
Changed procurement policy1113
Others0000

What were the slight affects?

AnswersN.A.EUOthersTotal
Increased management workload/cost3609
Changed items of marketing products1102
Changed timber suppliers2204
Changed customers1001
Changed procurement policy5106
Others1001

(C)Influence on business caused by “obligation of filing a declaration upon importation”
Only one out of 29 replied “obligation of declaration considerably affected”, 11 responded “slightly affected and the rest 17 said “not affected”. Again cost increase is the major point of the influence.

AnswersN.A.EUOthersTotal
Obligation of declaration considerably affected our business1001
Obligation of declaration slightly affected our business47011
Obligation of declaration did not affected our business106117

What were the considerable affects?

AnswersN.A.EUOthersTotal
Increased management workload/cost1001
Changed items of marketing products1001
Changed timber suppliers1001
Changed customers1001
Changed procurement policy1001
Others0000

What were the slight affects?

AnswersN.A.EUOthersTotal
Increased management workload/cost46010
Changed items of marketing products0101
Changed timber suppliers0101
Changed customers1001
Changed procurement policy2002
Others1001

(D) Penalty in Lacey Act
The answer “Yes, I know penalty in Lacey Act” was dominant with only 3 who replied “No, I do not know”, which shows the acknowledgement of Lacey Act is considerably high in the industry. About the contents of the penalty, 13 said “it is appropriate” but 6 answered “it is too strict and gives a burden on companies.”
There are some other opinions, which are;
-  It should be the responsibility of wood producing country to keep legality in harvesting wood. Therefore it is unreasonable that the penalty of illegal logging is to be imposed on the purchasers who buy/import wood from the fair, open market.
-  Our company’s internal regulation strictly controls and conforms to the legal requirements and the current penalty is not at all too strict in order to keep fairness.
-  We have not prepared to cope with the Lacey Act requirements so cannot comments on it.

Do you know of the penalty under Lacey Act?

AnswersN.A.EUOthersTotal
Yes, I know it.1411126
No, I do not know it.1203

Opinion about penalty in Lacey Act

AnswersN.A.EUOthersTotal
It is appropriate.94013
Penalty is necessary but this penalty is too strict.3216
Other opinions3205

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