How Florida wood traders navigate ban on repressive regime’s rare teak: Tree DNA tests

Shirsho Dasgupta March 8, 2023, 6:12 PM Florida companies Teakdecking Systems and Florida Teak imported more than half a million pounds of Burmese teak from Myanmar despite U.S. economic sanctions against the Myanma Timber Enterprise, the state firm that de facto controls the country’s timber sector. The sanctions have been in place since April 2021…