Why this page exists
In 2026 the first question a buyer in this trade asks is not about price. It is whether buying this material will cause them a problem. European regulators are auditing Turkish plants, Estonian customs opened over a hundred origin investigations, and the EU prosecutor is running criminal proceedings.
We prefer to answer that plainly — because a supplier who offers you a scheme is a liability, not an advantage.
Where we ship
✅ Turkey, China, India, Egypt, the UAE, Iran, Iraq, the EAEU and Central Asia, North Africa, Serbia.
❌ The European Union, the United Kingdom, Japan.
The EU prohibition has been in force since 10 July 2022: Article 3i of Regulation 833/2014, with Annex XXI covering the whole of chapter 44. In the United Kingdom the prohibition carries a penalty of up to ten years’ imprisonment. Japan halted imports of certain wood products on 19 April 2022.
For producers selling from Turkey into the EU
If you make plywood for the European market, this section matters regardless of who supplies you.
Anti-dumping. EU Regulation 2024/1287, in force since 15 May 2024, extends a 15.8% duty to birch plywood consigned from Turkey and Kazakhstan (CN 4412 33 10) regardless of declared origin. Every Turkish company that applied for an exemption was refused.
EUDR. From 30 December 2026 it applies to large and medium operators. Its logic differs from sanctions: it attaches not to the origin of the product but to the geolocation of the forest plot where the tree was felled. Processing in a third country does not reset that. Russia was classified as one of four high-risk countries under Implementing Regulation 2025/1093.
Being straight about certification
FSC has classified Russian and Belarusian timber as conflict timber since 8 April 2022 and will not accept it even as FSC Controlled Wood. PEFC took the same decision. So we have no FSC certificate and we do not say otherwise.
The Russian voluntary scheme “Forest Etalon” is not equivalent to FSC or PEFC and carries no legal weight under the EUDR. For a buyer selling into the EU it is of no use; in Middle Eastern, North African and CIS markets it can serve to evidence legality of harvest.
What we offer instead is a complete, verifiable and internally consistent documentary package on the origin of the raw material.
Division of responsibility
The buyer is responsible for compliance with the law of the destination country. We observe EU, UK and Japanese restrictions, do not ship to those jurisdictions, and take no part in origin-changing schemes.