Recently, the European Parliament adopted the "EU Regulation, wood and wood products" means related domestic wood products into the European Union set up a green barrier. The reporter learned from Foshan Furniture Industry Association and a number of furniture manufacturers understand that, Shunde furniture exports to the EU is relatively small, being unaffected significant impact.
EU's new rules require the legal sources of wood
The EU is China's second largest market for exports of wood products, wood products exports to the EU last year, accounting for wood products in China's total exports that year nearly 1 / 4, the new timber law will become a Chinese wood products exports, a green barriers, can not provide sufficient legitimacy certified wood and wood products will be hampered by the European Union.
This reporter has learned, an official at the European Parliament recently passed the "EU Regulation, wood and wood products" and the "new environmental design directive motion" an attempt to eliminate illegal logging of timber and timber products to take the risk into the European Union to require the production of timber processing and sales chain all vendors are required to submit source of wood, the European Union, national and forest, timber size and weight, log the name of address of the supplier to prove the legality of timber sources of basic information, illegal wood and wood products will be subject to severe punishment. The sanctions will have an impact for the office, kitchen, bedroom, guest dining room wooden furniture, wooden furniture (including certain types of wood trim), all kinds of wood, wooden picture frames, photo frames and mirror frames, all kinds of Wooden packaging (including boxes, box). The Regulation was adopted by the European Parliament, the need by the EU Council to reach a political consensus before being implemented.
Shunde furniture manufacturers is not currently significant impact on
The reporter learned from a number of furniture manufacturers learned Shunde, Shunde less furniture exports to the EU, but also blocked export of the financial crisis, under the influence of furniture exports to the EU decrease. For the EU's new regulations, Shunde furniture manufacturers unaffected seriously affected.
Furniture Manufacturing Co., Ltd. Shunde District, Jobon relevant responsible person said that the plant exported about 30% of furniture export region in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, mainly exported to the EU's much directly, but do not rule out foreign distributors from the resell the European Union in the Middle East. While another local businesses Zhidong The situation is much the same furniture, the export of three into the products, sold mostly in the Middle East and Africa, Europe and the United States are few. Central to the letter is a domestic market-based furniture manufacturers, exports account for only about 10%, in the main domestic market, exports of the Middle East, Russia, only a small part of the products sold in Australia and Canada.
Foshan City, the Secretary-General Zhang Ying enamel Home Industry Association, said the new rules on the procurement of wood raw material for furniture manufacturers, the corresponding restrictions, the main effect of rising costs caused by testing, but the present situation, the impact of Shunde local enterprises is still relatively small. At present, the Association also have members who have not received requests for assistance. The industry also said that in the long run, wood and wood products need to pay attention to the new regulations.
