Is there no balance we can strive to hit?

Seems weird to be ok with slave labour and poor practices, simply because you want to ignore the negative externalities and consume cheap things (ie. undermining local economic production).

> What other countries do with their trees is not my problem.

You may mean that what you don't want to worry about it, which is a reasonable position as you can't worry about everything, but it certainly is your problem in the sense that it affects you; it's not like the effects of deforestation respect national borders.

The effects of deforestation most certainly are contained locally

That sounds like claiming the effect of scarring on the lungs is local to the scarred area and has no other effect on the body at all.

It's also contrary to the statements made by NASA in their studies and monitoring of deforestation about the world.

Net loss of forest is net loss of carbon capture by forests.

This has been my standpoint though I'm not against regulation. Am I expected to vet every supply chain for everything that I buy? Sounds ridiculous. Let other countries and regulators worry about it.

Should companies competing in your economy be allowed to profit off cheap / illegal labor? That kind of labor makes labor in your economy uncompetitive