The decline in European imports of temperate hardwood plywood from Kazakhstan and Turkey in 2024 followed on from the extension of EU anti-dumping measures on imports of birch plywood, previously applied to Russian products, to imports from the two countries.

The European Commission announced the extension in May last year following their investigation which concluded that EU anti-dumping duties on imports of birch plywood from Russia were being circumvented by imports transshipped from Russia to Kazakhstan and Turkey, or sent for final completion to these countries, preceding shipment of the finished product to the EU.

In October 2024, the European Commission initiated an additional anti-dumping investigation, this time concerning imports of hardwood plywood from China.

That investigation is still on-going. As part of this procedure, in December 2024 the EU introduced a law requiring registration of all hardwood plywood imports from China.