TITLE

Export ban threatens Indonesian factories

AUTHOR(S)

Carroll, Brian

PUB. DATE

June 2001

SOURCE

Furniture/Today;6/25/2001, Vol. 25 Issue 41, p22

SOURCE TYPE

Trade Publication

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Reports on the possible closure of furniture makers in Indonesia following the government's decision to ban the sale and export of indigenous ramin wood. Association of Indonesian Furniture and Handicraft Producers' opposition against the export ban; Possible shortage in the supply of ramin.

ACCESSION #

4726354

 

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