{"title":"Forestry and logging products market in Europe","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/europe/034-forestry-and-logging-products","scope":"Europe (30 countries: EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein)","category":{"cpvGroup":"034","label":"Forestry and logging products"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in 30 European countries awarded 1,305 supply contracts for forestry and logging products through award notices on TED; the 732 of them that state a value (56.1%) add up to €133 million. EU countries together imported €22 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to forestry and logging products in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 4703, 4401, 4403, 4702, 4602 and 10 more headings; sum of national imports, trade between EU countries included; all buyers, not only public ones), down 6.5% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 1,094 companies have won 3,898 public supply contracts for forestry and logging products in 30 European countries, in 1,368 award notices from 705 public buyers.","2.1% of these awards went to a company registered in a different country from the buyer; the most frequent foreign origin is Netherlands.","The five companies that win most often hold 7.3% of all awards across Europe.","17.2% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":3898,"awardNotices":1368,"winningCompanies":1094,"publicBuyers":705,"awardsWithValue":2230,"awardedValueEur":402749805,"localAwards":3818,"foreignAwards":80,"top5Share":0.07311441765007697,"singleBidAwards":605,"awardsWithKnownBids":3526,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":58,"awardNotices":19,"awardsWithValue":33,"awardedValueEur":2021484},{"year":2024,"awards":1371,"awardNotices":458,"awardsWithValue":775,"awardedValueEur":118873618},{"year":2025,"awards":1305,"awardNotices":477,"awardsWithValue":732,"awardedValueEur":132504178},{"year":2026,"awards":1164,"awardNotices":414,"awardsWithValue":690,"awardedValueEur":149350525}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"4703","label":"Chemical wood pulp, soda or sulphate (excl. dissolving grades)"},{"hs4":"4401","label":"Fuel wood, in logs, billets, twigs, faggots or similar forms"},{"hs4":"4403","label":"Wood in the rough, whether or not stripped of bark or sapwood, or roughly squared (excl. rough-cut wood for walking sticks, umbrellas, tool shafts and the like"},{"hs4":"4702","label":"Chemical wood pulp, dissolving grades"},{"hs4":"4602","label":"Basketwork, wickerwork and other articles, made directly to shape from plaiting materials or made up from goods of heading 4601, and articles of loofah (excl. wallcoverings of heading 4814"},{"hs4":"4504","label":"Agglomerated cork, with or without a binding substance, and articles of agglomerated cork (excl. footware and parts thereof, insoles, whether or not removable"},{"hs4":"1301","label":"Lac"},{"hs4":"4706","label":"Pulps of fibres derived from recovered \"waste and scrap\" paper or paperboard or of other fibrous cellulosic material (excl. wood)"},{"hs4":"4705","label":"Wood pulp obtained by a combination of mechanical and chemical pulping processes"},{"hs4":"4501","label":"Natural cork, raw or merely surface-worked or otherwise cleaned"},{"hs4":"4503","label":"Articles of natural cork (excl. cork in square or rectangular blocks, plates, sheets or strips"},{"hs4":"4704","label":"Chemical wood pulp, sulphite (excl. dissolving grades)"},{"hs4":"4404","label":"Hoopwood"},{"hs4":"4701","label":"Mechanical wood pulp, not chemically treated"},{"hs4":"4502","label":"Natural cork, debacked or roughly squared, or in square or rectangular blocks, plates, sheets or strip, incl. sharp-edged blanks for corks or stoppers"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":23523420783},{"year":2024,"valueEur":23913781052},{"year":2025,"valueEur":21999793644}]},"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in the EU-27 — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €2.93 trillion in 2025, 15.5% of GDP (Eurostat). Award notices on TED cover only the contracts above the EU thresholds, so they show who wins, not the whole of that spending."],"allPublicPurchasing":{"year":2025,"valueEur":2926602000000,"percentOfGdp":15.5,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":31.3,"definition":"General government intermediate consumption + gross fixed capital formation + social transfers in kind purchased from market producers (Eurostat ESA 2010 items P.2 + P.51G + D.632)."},"source":"Eurostat, government finance statistics (gov_10a_main, gov_10a_exp) and GDP (nama_10_gdp), https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/government-finance-statistics/database, retrieved 2026-11-09"},"industryReports":[],"method":"One award per procedure, lot and winning company from live TED contract award notices published since November 2023; a joint procurement counts on every buyer's market; values are awarded amounts only (framework ceilings and estimates never added), converted to euro at the ECB yearly average. Imports: only customs headings (HS 4 digits) whose trade is predominantly the CPV group, listed under imports.customsHeadings, all buyers, not only public ones; a category that no heading isolates has no import figure (imports: null). https://cresques.com/methodology","sources":["TED — Tenders Electronic Daily, © European Union, https://ted.europa.eu","Eurostat, international trade in goods (Comext), © European Union"],"licence":"CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","citation":"Cresques, \"Forestry and logging products market in Europe\", https://cresques.com/markets/europe/034-forestry-and-logging-products, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}