摘要：To certify means to accredit a product or a practice for some special attribute, characteristic, feature or quality. In a global market it is difficult to have international policies for well forest management practices. If the policies cannot be created under command and control practices (laws and regulations) then the alternative option is to create a market value for the goods. In this case the goods are the wood with an extra attribute. This attribute is to have come from a forest with sound management. To be able to track the wood that comes from well-managed forests a tracking tool is needed. This tracking tool is better known as Chain of Custody (CoC). The CoC is an inventory control process in the wood manufacturing industry developed to track certified forest products from the forest through the supply chain to the final consumer.
关键词：forest certification; wood products certification; chain of custody; international trade; forest products Industry
