It’s been a roller coaster 12 months for the European plywood industry according to stockholder importers and distributors in the region.
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There are signs that the upturn in the eurozone economy in the last 2 years will be short-lived and growth is stagnating again. Meanwhile, the trade war between USA and China has stirred fears of a new global recession and EU countries are anxiously awaiting the outcome of Brexit negotiations with the UK. None of which is good for market stability.
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The latest Eurostat trade data for EU wood furniture trade indicates that the trends reported by ITTO MIS in September 2018 (Volume 22, Number 18) have continued; internal EU trade is rising, whereas external trade is broadly flat, both on the import and export side (Chart 1)
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