Intense negotiations continue within the European Council and European Parliament towards agreement of a final text of the law "on the making available on the Union market as well as export from the Union of certain commodities and products associated with deforestation and forest degradation".

China imported 30% of its total volume of softwood logs from Europe in 2020 and 2021, thus surpassing supply from Russia and North America.
 

The rise in the price of raw materials such as wood chips led to a double-digit percentage increase in the price of pellets in Germany for the first time in December 2021.