Early insights into potential trade impacts of EUDR

The comments of policy makers and trade analysts in recent media articles imply that there will be winners and losers from the EUDR when enforcement begins on 1 January 2025. A revealing insight into where the balance of advantage, and disadvantage, might lie in trade terms is provided by a presentation by Matthew Spencer, of the IDH Sustainable Trade Initiative, delivered to a meeting of the Amsterdam Declarations Partnership (ADP) held in London in May this year. Spencer’s central message is that there may be “wider wins from EUDR” including stronger enforcement of national forest laws, acceleration ...