Tree commodity crops represent something of an exception to the sparse information available on the value of other tree products (as exemplified in Sections 2 and 3), as export data are compiled widely by national governments and are further assembled by FAO’s Statistics Division (FAOSTAT, 2013). Data extracted from FAOSTAT for the five most important tree commodity crops grown widely in the tropics – palm oil (derived from African oil palm, Elaeis guineensis), coffee (primarily from Coffea arabica), rubber (from Hevea brasiliensis), cocoa (from cacao, Theobroma cacao) and tea (primarily from Camellia sinensis) – indicate that a large export value of more than 80 billion USD (including re-exports) was realised
in 2010, which is of the same order as total annual NTFP extractions (Section 2.1).