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Total EU+UK imports of plywood from outside the region in 2023 were 3.29 million cu.m, down 26% compared to the previous year and only just exceeding the record low of 3.1 million cu.m in 2009 during the global financial crises.<\/span><\/p>\n

The decline in 2023 felt even more dramatic as it followed on from two years in 2021 and 2022 when imports were at record levels averaging 4.5 million cu.m per annum.<\/p>\n

EU+UK imports of plywood from outside the region have remained weak in 2024. In the first five months of the year, total imports were 1.58 million cu.m, just 1% more than the same period in 2023.<\/p>\n

Imports of tropical plywood were down 5% to 180,600 cu.m and imports of softwood plywood were down 6% to 652,000 cu.m. However, these declines were offset by a 10% rise in imports of temperate hardwood plywood to 748,800 cu.m.<\/p>\n

Despite the slight rise this year, EU+UK imports of temperate hardwood plywood remain well down on levels prevailing before Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and the subsequent imposition of economic sanctions on Russia and Belorussia by the EU and UK, including a total ban on all imports of timber products from both countries.<\/p>\n

Due to slowing economic conditions in Europe for the second half of 2022 onwards, the anticipated surge in plywood imports into Europe from alternative supply countries following the removal of Russian and Belorussian products from the market has been much less dramatic than expected.<\/p>\n

By far the biggest gain in market share has been made by temperate hardwood plywood from China. There was also a surge in birch plywood imports into the EU from Kazakhstan in 2023, raising immediate concerns that some European importers were deliberately circumventing the sanctions by sourcing Russian birch plywood from third countries.<\/p>\n

EU domestic plywood manufacturers were unable to increase production in response to the supply gap that opened following the sanctions on Russian and Belorussian products.<\/p>\n

Data from the European Panels Federation indicates that total EU plywood production fell 2.5% from 3.2 million cu.m in 2021 to 3.1 million cu.m in 2022 and then a further 15% to just 2.6 million cu.m in 2023.<\/p>\n

In fact, the level of EU production last year was unprecedented, being the lowest ever recorded and only about half the volume of nearly 5 million cu.m per annum prevailing before the COVID pandemic.<\/p>\n

This year, EU+UK imports of tropical hardwood plywood direct from tropical countries have held up better than imports of plywood faced with tropical hardwood from China. In the first five months of this year, imports from China into the European region, which are mainly destined for the UK, decreased 22% to 40,300 cu.m.<\/p>\n

In contrast, imports direct from tropical countries during the period were 129,000 cu.m, just 1% less than the same period in 2023.<\/p>\n

Although imports from Indonesia fell 11% to 50,100 cu.m and were down 5% to 27,100 cu.m from Gabon, there was a strong 27% rebound in imports from Malaysia to 24,400 cu.m, while imports from Vietnam increased 78% to 8,900 cu.m and imports from Paraguay were up 29% to 4,100 cu.m.<\/p>\n

In the first five months of this year, EU+UK plywood imports of temperate hardwood plywood increased 10% to 748,800 cu.m. The gains were mainly due to imports from China and Ukraine, which were 564,100 cu.m and 90,800 cu.m in the January to May period this year, respectively 12% and 35% more than the same period in 2023.<\/p>\n

Imports of temperate hardwood plywood from Kazakhstan were down 37% to 33,700 cu.m while those from Turkey fell 48% to 11,500 cu.m in the first five months of this year.<\/p>\n

The decline in European imports from Kazakhstan and Turkey comes at a time when the European Commission is extending anti-dumping measures on imports of birch plywood, previously applied to Russian products, to imports from the two countries.<\/p>\n

The EC announced the extension on 14 May this year following an EC investigation which concluded that EU anti-dumping duties on imports of birch plywood from Russia were being circumvented by imports transhipped from Russia to Kazakhstan and Turkey, or sent for final completion to these countries, preceding shipment of the finished product to the EU.<\/p>\n

In the first five months of this year, the EU+UK region imported 652,000 cu.m of softwood plywood, 6% less than the same period in 2023. The decline in imports was driven mainly by Brazilian products, for which imports fell 7% to 524,000 cu.m.<\/p>\n

Imports from China also declined, by 6% to 33,000 cu.m. Imports from South Africa increased by 10% to 8,000 cu.m. Imports from Chile were stable at 63,000 cu.m.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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