After flat lining in 2016, the value of EU imports of wood furniture from non-EU countries increased 7% to €6.16 billion in 2017. Imports from China, by far the largest external supplier fell 4% in 2016 but recovered 0.7% to 3.08 billion in 2017.  In recent years China’s competitiveness in the EU wood furniture market has been impeded as prices have risen on the back of growing domestic demand and new laws for pollution control pollution in China.  EU furniture importers also continue to question the variable quality of product imported ...