“Russian Forest must be processed in Russia”—Recently a so-called concept again put forward in the Tomsk Federal Customs Service Leaders Meeting on May 25. Andrei Belyaninov decided passed the resolution about raising the timber logs tariffs, but still no result. The timber exporters seeking for the maximum profits make the Russian Timber Processing Industry on a hunger situation.

According to statistics, 2006 Siberian timber mainly exports to Japan and China worth 18 billion dollars, Among them, 21.5, higher than last years 21.5%. According to state officials Chita conservative estimate, more than half of timber has been purchased and shipped out in name of “Illegal Timber ”. It caused the serious criticism from Russias Federal Natural Resources Minister Yuri Trutnev and the examination about this areas forestry on about May 20th.

During the struggle with the illegal timber exporters, the experts believe that Irkutsk Customs experience has been quite successful. The electronic devices have been used on timbers that fixed code on each log. In addition, the working experience of rkutsk timber exchange attracted a gear attention. According to the meeting result, Andreas propose that the whole Siberian customs Department should set about establishing a similar yarding market. Skidding field harvesting now the work is entirely voluntary thing. However, some officials think that people who oppose this program will become the target with high attention from supervision department.