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An impact of the UK\u2019s departure from the EU single market and customs union on 1st January this year was meant to be a decline in the quantity of UK timber imports from the EU.<\/em><\/p>\n

This forecast followed expectations of logistical problems as new controls were introduced at the UK border, increased scrutiny of the plant health and legal status of EU wood products imported into the UK, and sluggish economic activity in the UK due to post Brexit uncertainty.<\/p>\n

However, not only did UK imports from the EU fail to decline in the first half of 2021, but they were at record levels. Chart 8 shows the quantity of UK imports of all wood and wood furniture products from the EU (excluding wood for fuel) on a monthly basis since the start of 2017.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In total, the UK imported 4.13 million tonnes of wood products from the EU27 in the first seven months of 2021, 40% more than the previous year, which of course was COVID-affected, but also 21% more than in 2019, the last \u201cnormal\u201d year.<\/p>\n

Most of this growth was concentrated in softwood sawnwood and logs and panel products, which dominate UK imports from the EU27 (at least in tonnage terms). However, imports of furniture and hardwood products which compete more directly with imports from the tropics also grew strongly from the EU in the opening months of this year.<\/p>\n

Of course it is early days for the UK outside the EU single market, and the UK timber market is currently experiencing unprecedented conditions due to the COVID pandemic. The combination of very high levels of consumption in the UK construction and DIY sectors and severe disruption of supplies from sources further afield - in China, Southeast Asia, North and South America, and Africa - has fed a significant upturn in UK demand and prices for timber imports from the EU.<\/p>\n

Importers and distributors have had a strong incentive to overcome the new logistical and bureaucratic\"\"<\/a>\u00a0challenges of sourcing from the EU.<\/p>\n

The main question now is whether this situation will be maintained for the long term, and whether there is any genuine potential for the UK to pivot away from the EU as logistical problems ease in other parts of the world.<\/p>\n

The market signals are still mixed in relation to this question. The UK's exit from the EU has contributed to a significant fall in indirect imports of tropical sawnwood and plywood from the European continent during 2021.<\/p>\n

But this has yet to be compensated by any significant rise in direct imports of these same products from tropical countries.<\/p>\n

However, the uptick this year in UK imports of wooden doors from Indonesia and of other joinery products from Malaysia to levels exceeding those pre-pandemic, despite very high freight rates, is some grounds for optimism.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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