EU imports of tropical timber products increased sharply between January and May this year, but slowed again in the four months to end September 2016 (Chart 1). Nevertheless, the value of EU imports of tropical timber across all product groups in the first 9 months of 2016 was, at €1.741 billion, 2% greater than the same period the previous year. So far EU imports of tropical timber in 2016 have been close to levels last seen in 2011.
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In the last ITTO report on the European plywood market (MIS 16-31 May 2016), it was noted that the share of tropical countries in EU plywood imports fell to an all-time low of less than 8% in 2015. While EU imports of plywood from tropical countries were rising slowly last year, imports from other countries increased more sharply, particularly of mixed hardwood plywood from China and birch plywood from Russia.
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