European furniture manufacturers are also strongly motivated to maintain and increase share in their home markets as they are now struggling to expand sales outside the EU. Last year there was a 1.7% fall in the value of EU wood furniture exports to €8.78 billion.  This continues a trend of flat-lining, or slowly declining exports to countries outside the EU after reaching an all-time high of just over €9 billion in 2015. Since then the competitive benefits of the relative weakness of the euro against the dollar and other cost saving efforts of EU ...