{"id":77500,"date":"2019-05-23T10:28:47","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T10:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tin.happy-projects.ro\/germany-shifts-away-from-imports-of-tropical-wood\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T08:50:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:50:49","slug":"germany-shifts-away-from-imports-of-tropical-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timberindustrynews.com\/ro\/germany-shifts-away-from-imports-of-tropical-wood\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany shifts away from imports of tropical wood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Insights into the reasons for Germany\u2019s shift away imports of tropical wood, particularly direct imports, were provided by the IMM\u00a0 FLEGT (Independent Market Monitor) Trade Consultation held in Berlin at the end of 2018. This consultation forms part of wider series of consultations being held during 2018 and 2019 in all the main European markets for tropical wood products to obtain feedback from the trade on the potential to develop markets for FLEGT licensed timber in the EU.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>During the Berlin consultation, to help place FLEGT licensed timber in the correct market context, traders were asked to identify and rank the key factors driving market decline for tropical timber products in Germany in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>The main drivers identified, in declining order of significance, were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Substitution by temperate wood, composites and other materials (16 votes);<\/li>\n<li>Environmental prejudice and uncoordinated marketing (9 votes);<\/li>\n<li>Competition from China for material access and in markets for finished goods (9 votes); and<\/li>\n<li>The challenges of conformance to the EU Timber Regulation (8 votes).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The first driver is indicated both by the trade flow data, which shows large increases in Germany\u2019s trade in wood products other than tropical timber, and by other reports from traders.<\/p>\n<p>These reports highlight, for example, that all solid wood products, but particularly tropical, are losing share to wood plastic composites in the market for decking and other exterior products.<\/p>\n<p>This trend is so far-reaching in Germany that even thermally and other treated temperate wood products, which are making ground elsewhere in Europe, are losing share in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, the market for real-wood flooring in Germany has been struggling in recent times even as broader domestic consumption trends have been on the rise, an indication of the pressure being felt in this market from alternatives such as laminated flooring and luxury vinyl tiles.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth driver of tropical wood\u2019s decline, relating to EUTR, features more strongly in Germany than in other EU countries. It is also reflected in the trade data which shows the growing proportion of tropical wood imported indirectly into Germany via other EU countries.<\/p>\n<p>This tends to confirm reports that an increasing proportion of tropical wood imports into the EU are now being channelled via larger importing companies close to the main European ports that are willing and able to devote more time and resources for a wide range of specialist services, including EUTR due diligence.<\/p>\n<p>A feature of the Germany IMM trade consultation (interestingly also repeated in a more recent Dutch\/Belgian IMM event held in Antwerp) is that while EUTR is identified by the importing sector as a significant of driver of decline in tropical wood trade, at the same time it is also seen as a potentially important part of long-term strategy to maintain and, potentially, rebuild market share.<\/p>\n<p>Having rated drivers of market decline, German importers at the consultation were then asked to rate the potential of different market development strategies for tropical timber in the EU. One strategy was rejected outright by all participants; this proposed \u201cderegulation\u201d, the total abolition of requirements for EUTR and FLEGT licensing, based on the assumption that tropical timber imports may be boosted by reducing the regulatory burden.<\/p>\n<p>Not only was the deregulatory approach rejected, but the strategy receiving by far the most votes was the exact opposite; \u201ca regulatory approach involving increased supply of FLEGT-licensed tropical timber linked to consistent and effective enforcement of EUTR to remove illegal wood\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Practically all participants in Berlin regarded the EUTR combined with FLEGT licensing as the right approach to improve credibility and reputation of the tropical timber trade in the EU. The process of consolidation in the sector and the concentration of import activities in the hands of a smaller number of expert importers was also generally seen as a positive development by participants.<\/p>\n<p>The second most favoured strategy for rebuilding tropical wood\u2019s market share in Germany was identified as \u201chighlighting\/promoting the environmental benefits of tropical timber and underpinning these scientifically through life-cycle analysis (LCA)\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Here, traders were also calling for increased regulatory support through government procurement policies. Participants at the trade consultation also called for inclusion of FLEGT-licensed tropical timber in public procurement policies as evidence of both legality and sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>While these strategies were seen as having potential to improve market conditions for tropical wood in the German market, trade consultation participants generally expected stagnation of the German and wider EU tropical timber market at the current low level, at least in the short to medium term.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insights into the reasons for Germany\u2019s shift away imports of tropical wood, particularly direct imports, were provided by the IMM\u00a0 FLEGT (Independent Market Monitor) Trade Consultation held in Berlin at the end of 2018. 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