Georgia has unexpectedly increased its import volumes in the European birch plywood market. Even at the beginning of last year, not much birch plywood was imported from the country. The EU started investigating the illegal import of Russian birch plywood via Kazakhstan and Turkey in August 2023. These countries have not previously been significant exporters of that type of plywood either. In 2022, the EU imposed sanctions on Russian wood raw material and wood products due to Russia's war of aggression. In addition, the EU had set an anti-dumping duty on Russian birch plywood already in ...