{"id":75472,"date":"2018-04-17T10:32:03","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T10:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tin.happy-projects.ro\/supply-problems-affect-eu-tropical-imports\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T08:47:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:47:51","slug":"supply-problems-affect-eu-tropical-imports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timberindustrynews.com\/ro\/supply-problems-affect-eu-tropical-imports\/","title":{"rendered":"Supply problems affect the EU tropical imports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>In practice, the recent decline in tropical imports into the EU is better seen as a region-wide phenomenon driven mainly by supply side trends.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In 2017, a range of factors conspired to result in extremely low tropical sawn hardwood imports across the EU. These include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On-going serious problems and delays with shipping out of Douala Port in Cameroon.<\/li>\n<li>Overstocking in the EU at the end of 2016 following arrival all at once of a large volume of delayed shipments from Africa.<\/li>\n<li>Diminishing commercial availability of tropical hardwood species of interest to European buyers.<\/li>\n<li>The problem of delayed payment of VAT refunds by African governments, partly linked to low oil prices, which is creating additional financial challenges for operators in the region.<\/li>\n<li>Good demand and willingness to pay higher prices for tropical hardwood in other regions including Asia, the Middle East, and North America.<\/li>\n<li>Reduced focus on supply of sawn timber to the EU by many tropical suppliers, particularly encouraged in Africa by strong demand for logs from China, and in South East Asia by on-going efforts to move into higher value products such as furniture.<\/li>\n<li>Continued substitution of tropical hardwoods for a range of modified temperate wood species and alternative non-wood products.<\/li>\n<li>Fashion changes, particularly the strong trend towards the oak look in EU and the fact that there is now very little demand for redwood finishes in the EU interiors sector.<\/li>\n<li>The on-going trend towards prefabrication in construction, is increasingly favouring tightly specified engineered wood products which are more readily accessible from domestic manufacturers than from the tropics.<\/li>\n<li>Intensifying enforcement of EUTR across the EU and the challenges and expense of legality due diligence in some tropical countries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In practice, the recent decline in tropical imports into the EU is better seen as a region-wide phenomenon driven mainly by supply side trends. 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