The supplier countries have leverage.
This entails "partner" supplier countries legally assuring timber at source and dovetails with the EUTR in combating illegal timber.
Amending the treaty will take lengthy negotiations and time, while export controls could, if the supplier countries agree, be applied right away.
After analysing trade data for 36 supplier countries, the EIA has concluded that approximately 10% of the logs and sawed timber is illegal, representing "turnover" of $3.7bn.
This is the other part of the magic trick, the western perception of the supplier countries, born of ignorance and embarrassment.
The decline in heavy industry and construction has depressed demand for oil, iron ore and other commodities, dragging on growth in Australia, Brazil and other supplier countries.
The volume and range of products sold by grocery retailers is now immense in the UK, and that scale puts them in a position to exert great influence upstream and downstream, in supplier countries and amongst their consumers.
Many natural gas industry officials and outside observers have suggested that shale gas might be a "game changer" in the global economy, altering the traditional division of the world between energy-rich supplier countries and energy-poor consumer countries.
The achievements of the mid- to late 1970s were modest, and by the early 1980s Czechoslovakia was experiencing a serious economic downturn, caused by a decline in markets for its products, burdensome terms of trade with several of its supplier countries, and a surplus of outdated machinery and technology.
"The idea that U.S. regulations that aren't shared by other supplier countries could be an effective influence on fuel risk is probably not a very good idea," says Smith.
