The Mozambican and Chinese governments have formally agreed to exchange information about the timber Mozambique sells China, with a view to countering illegal logging, O País reports.
The Mozambican newspaper says the agreement entails making arrangements for exchanging information about the felling, transport, export and sale of Mozambican timber to China.
The report says illegal logging deprived the Mozambican government of US$1 billion in taxes and other revenue in the past decade.
Mozambique and China have undertaken to increase technology transfers and institutional capacity-building, and to improve the environment that the logging industry does business in.
One way they will do so is by setting up in Mozambique a timber processing industrial park, O País says.
