Turkish Furniture Index
Rule
EU deforestation regulation
Instrument
Regulation (EU) 2023/1115
Applies from
30 December 2026
Micro and small operators
30 June 2027
Binds
Whoever places the goods on the EU market
Exporting to the EU
4,781 firms

EUDR, and the part of it that sits in Türkiye

From 30 December 2026, wood furniture can only go on the EU market if someone can prove the wood did not come from recently deforested land. The duty lands on the importer. The proof starts a long way upstream of him, and most of it starts before the furniture factory.

The dates

The Commission states the application dates in three lines.

In December 2024 and December 2025 the European Union amended the Deforestation Regulation, introducing simplification measures which will reduce administrative costs and burden for companies covered by the Regulation. The entry into application is: Large and medium operators: 30 December 2026. Micro and small operators: 30 June 2027. Micro and small operators already covered by the EU Timber Regulation (EUTR): 30 December 2026.

European Commission, deforestation-free products

Read the third line, not the second. Wood furniture was already inside the EU Timber Regulation, so a small operator handling it does not get the June 2027 date. It gets 30 December 2026, the same as everybody else. The regulation was amended twice and both amendments were about simplifying the paperwork. Neither moved these dates.

Furniture is named, not implied

The Commission’s own page lists furniture among the derived products in scope, alongside leather, chocolate and tyres. There is no reading of this rule in which a wooden hotel bed is outside it.

Under the Regulation, any operator or trader who places these commodities on the EU market, or exports from it, must be able to prove that the products do not originate from recently deforested land or have contributed to forest degradation.

European Commission, deforestation-free products

The regulation also repeals the EU Timber Regulation, so this is a replacement, not an extra layer. A due-diligence system built for the old rule is a starting point and not an answer.

Who carries it, and who holds the data

The duty follows the words places on the EU market. For goods leaving Gemlik or İnegöl in a container, that is an importer in Rotterdam or Hamburg or Dublin. A Turkish factory is not the operator and does not file.

The data goes the other way. What has to be proved is a fact about land: where the timber was cut, and what stood on that land before. Nobody in Rotterdam knows that. The sawmill and the panel mill know it. The factory buys from them, and the importer has to get it through the factory. The duty and the evidence sit at opposite ends of the chain, and the middle is where it breaks.

That is the question worth putting to a supplier now rather than in December: can you pass through the origin data your board supplier gives you, and will you name the person who owns it? A firm that has never been asked will not have an answer ready. A firm that has been asked by three German buyers already will.

This page does not restate the article-by-article contents of the due diligence statement. We could not open the regulation text at EUR-Lex on the day this page was written, and a requirement worth acting on is worth reading at source. The regulation is linked below.

What a buyer can ask for

Who this reaches4,781

4,781 of the 8,923 Turkish exporters in this index sell into at least one EU market — the population the regulation reaches.

Counted across 26 EU member states. Northern Cyprus (1,090 firms) is excluded from every figure on this page: it sits outside the EU customs territory.

The firms with nowhere else to sell3,567

This is the cut that matters. 3,567 of those 4,781 firms export to the EU and to neither the United Kingdom nor the United States. For them the EU is not one market among three. If the paperwork does not come together, there is no second western market to move volume into.

Firms exporting to that EU market and to neither the UK nor the US. A firm exporting to several EU markets is counted in each row, so these do not add up to 3,567. Total firms per market are on the formaldehyde page, and in full on each destination page.

With a company page413

Exporting to at least one EU market, and to neither the UK nor the US.

The remaining 3,154 firms in this cut are listed on the destination pages above.

The other rules on the same firms

Sources4

Each link goes to the text the fact above was read from. Opened and read on 7 September 2026.

  1. European Commission — Regulation on deforestation-free products The application dates, the December 2024 and December 2025 amendments, and furniture named as a covered derived product. Quoted on this page.
  2. Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 — full text The regulation itself, including the article-by-article duties this page deliberately does not paraphrase.
  3. European Commission — frequently asked questions on EUDR implementation The Commission’s own implementation answers.
  4. European Commission — the EU Timber Regulation The rule EUDR repeals, and the reason wood furniture sits in the earlier of the two dates.

Nothing on this page is legal advice.

The other rules5