{"id":55160,"date":"2023-05-16T13:01:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T04:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/16\/myanmar-teak-wood-import-sanctions"},"modified":"2023-05-16T13:01:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T04:01:02","slug":"us-imports-of-blood-teak-from-myanmar-continue-despite-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55160","title":{"rendered":"US imports of \u2018blood teak\u2019 from Myanmar continue despite sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The harvesting of the luxury wood contributes to deforestation and profits from its sale support the country\u2019s military regime<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of tons of timber from Myanmar have continued to be imported into the US, despite government sanctions against the country\u2019s state-run timber company, a new <a href=\"https:\/\/eia-international.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/EIA-Acts-of-Defiance-2-FINAL.pdf\">report<\/a> from a watchdog environmental advocacy group has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>According to the UK-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), over 3,000 tons of timber from Myanmar have been imported into the US over the lpst two years.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/16\/myanmar-teak-wood-import-sanctions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The harvesting of the luxury wood contributes to deforestation and profits from its sale support the country\u2019s military regimeThousands of tons of timber from Myanmar have continued to be imported into the US, despite government sanctions against the c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3337,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,821,65,82,61,485,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-deforestation","category-environment","category-myanmar","category-south-and-central-asia","category-trees-and-forests","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3337"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55161,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55160\/revisions\/55161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}