EU imports of tropical sawnwood up 24%

After two slow years during the global pandemic, EU27 imports of tropical sawnwood recovered ground in the first ten months of last year. Imports of 869,000 cubic metres between January and October last year were 24% higher than the same period in 2021 and 34% more than the same period in 2020. Sawnwood imports increased during the ten-month period last year from all the largest tropical suppliers to the EU27 including Cameroon (+23% to 306,400 cubic metres), Brazil (+47% to 148,700 cubic metres), Gabon (+18% to 133,600 cubic metres), Malaysia (+29% to 77,000 ...