46 | Panel Perspectives: EC anti-dumping duties on Chinese hardwood plywood
EC IMPOSES DUTIES ON CHINESE HARDWOOD PLYWOOD
The European Commission’s imposition of provisional anti-dumping duties on Chinese
hardwood plywood exports has been celebrated by European plywood manufacturers who have long complained the imports create an unfair playing field. Stephen Powney reports
E
uropean hardwood plywood producers are celebrating the imposition of up to
62.4% provisional anti-dumping duties on Chinese hardwood plywood imports by the European Commission. However, many EU plywood importers and the Chinese plywood manufacturing sector have lobbied heavily against such a move.
The provisional duties were imposed on June 11 after the official decision was posted in the Official Journal of the EU the previous day. EU plywood producers had originally made
a complaint – via the Greenwood Consortium on August 27, 2024, – that they were suffering due to cheaper Chinese hardwood
plywood products being exported to the EU. A European Commission investigation started on October 11, 2024. The Commission’s report agreed that the
EU hardwood plywood manufacturing sector had been injured by the Chinese imports. “The current level of profitability of the Union industry is unsustainable,” the EU concluded.
“The imposition of measures is expected
to allow the Union industry to raise sales prices and regain its profitability.” A provisional anti-dumping duty rate of 62.4% is being imposed on Chinese hardwood plywood imports, except for the manufacturer Pizhou Jiangshan Wood Co Ltd which will have a 25.1% rate. “The individual company anti-dumping duty rate specified in this regulation was established on the basis of the findings of this investigation.” After initiation of the investigation, the
complainant, individual importers and the Plywood Trade Interest Alliance, made several submissions on the evidence in the complaint relating to dumping, injury casualty and the Union interest. The Commission also received comments from the China National Forest Products Industry Association and several Chinese exporting producers. The exhaustive investigation – covering the trading period of July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024, considered wood species, particularly poplar logs and eucalyptus veneers, industry production output, prices, workforces and energy.
Above: European plywood production WBPI | June/July 2025 |
www.wbpionline.com
The focus was plywood consisting solely of sheets of wood other than bamboo and okoumé, each ply not exceeding 6mm thickness, with at least one outer ply of tropical wood or non-coniferous wood, of
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