Slow start to the year for EU imports of tropical veneer and plywood

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EU27 imports of tropical veneer declined 4% to 64,900 cu.m in the first three months of this year. After a rapid rise last year, imports from Gabon declined 1% to 33,500 cu.m. There were larger falls in imports from Côte d'Ivoire (-7% to 14,500 cu.m), Ghana (-7% to 1,800 cu.m), Equatorial Guinea (-78% to 900 cu.m), and Indonesia (- 17% to 1,537 cu.m).

However, imports increased 13% to 4,700 cu.m from Cameroon and 32% to 5,900 cu.m from the Republic of Congo.

After a slow year in 2020, EU27 imports of tropical plywood made only marginal gains in the first quarter of this year. Imports of 51,500 cu.m in the three month period were just 2% more than in the same period in 2019. Imports were up from all four of the largest supply countries including Indonesia (+6% to 16,200 cu.m), China (+2% to 14,500 cu.m), Gabon (+29% to 8,000 cu.m), and Vietnam (+14% to 2,100 cu.m).

However, the decline in imports continued from Brazil (- 40% to 1,100 cu.m) and Malaysia (-37% to 875 cu.m.). EU27 imports of tropical hardwood plywood from the UK – a re-export since the UK has no plywood manufacturing capacity – fell 35% to 2,000 cu.m.

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