The EU-27 Import of Selected Wood Fuels and Current Changes in Supplying

The paper presents the results of the analysis of the supply of wood pellets, wood chips, wood briquettes, sawdust and wood waste and scrap on the EU market from non-EU countries in the period 2010-2023. The aim of the study was to identify the most important non-EU countries for the supply of selected wood fuels to the EU market and the volume of imports. In addition, the value of imports of selected fuels from non-EU countries and from individual non-EU countries that are the largest suppliers to the EU market were analyzed. The study pays particular attention to the period 2022-2023, during which the EU initially reduced and then suspended imports of wood fuels from Russia and Belarus. The EU met part of its energy needs by importing wood fuels from non-EU countries during the period under review. The analyses carried out provided an insight into the EU’s energy dependence on the import of selected wood fuels from non-EU countries. Regression models were used in this paper to determine the impact of EU imports of wood pellets from non-EU countries on the consumption of wood pellets in the EU.