The environmental impacts related with growing international trade of primary products are the world concerns today. Our focus here is forest resources, which contributes significantly to keep the environmental quality, farther liberalization of which has been argued on the table of APEC. Causes of deforestation are various depending on regions; in Asia, timber trade played a key role in wiping out the ancient forests. In this paper, we start with the history and status of forest resource trade in Asia. Then we discuss affects of timber trade on forest resources using some models. The arguments here is not special for forest resources, but applicable for other renewable resources such as fishery products. Because of their physical attributes, treating renewable resources as traditional goods is not always appropriate.