MYANMAR Wood-Based Furniture Association (MWBFA) requested easing export procedures for locally made value-added furniture and flooring worth below $500 to the Department of Forest, said U Aung Kyaw Moe, vice chair of the association.
“MWBFA called
for reducing red tape to the Department of Forest so that there would be no
need to seek permits of the related departments if furniture including chairs,
tables are worth below $500. We primarily export high-quality teak furniture as
well as flooring substituting parquet. The flooring is made of ironwood, shorea
and sal,” he elaborated.
Myanmar yearly
exports furniture and value-added flooring to India, Singapore and Japan. The
domestic furniture industries sourced raw materials including teak through an
auction of the Myanma Timber Enterprise. Furthermore, MWBFA also conducts a
timber sales agreement with Myanma Timber Enterprise in which the State-owned
enterprise has a legal right to the commercial sale of value-added timber
products manufactured by the MWBFA, attaching the MTE logo. The enterprise
resells them to departments, hotels or domestic buyers.
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