In an encouraging move with the potential to create transformative market change, China recently amended its Forest Law to include a nationwide ban on buying, transporting, and/or processing illegally sourced timber, as well as an added focus on traceability.  As the world’s largest timber importer and major processing hub, China for decades has been an opaque ‘black box’ for wood at high risk of illegality due to indiscriminate sourcing practices for huge volumes of timber from forests around the globe. Over more than twenty years, EIA investigators have documented illegal timber flows into China from Congo ...