report<\/a> from the U.S. Congressional Research Service estimated that, in 2023, U.S. exports of the seven commodities under the EUDR accounted for approximately 3 percent of the value of U.S. exports to the EU, “so overall the EUDR may not significantly affect U.S. trade.”<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/GettyImages-2262446195-1024x683.jpg\")
European Environment Commissioner Jessika Roswall\u00a0told reporters in January that there would be no new legislative proposal come April, saying businesses need \u201cpredictability.\u201d | Gabriel Luengas\/Europa Press via Getty Images<\/p>\n
Still, the authors wrote, the law could affect U.S. producers of specific commodities covered by the law. In 2023, the highest value of covered commodities exported to the EU from the U.S. were wood and wood products ($4.5 billion), soybeans ($4 billion), rubber ($1.1 billion), and cattle, such as beef and related products ($409 million).<\/p>\n
Environmental groups are calling on EU governments and the Commission to stick by the EUDR and keep the rules intact.<\/p>\n
\u201cMisleading and self-serving foreign pressure on the EU should not distract policy-makers from staying focused on facts,” said Anke Schulmeister-Oldenhove, manager for forests at WWF EU, in an emailed statement. “Every year the EUDR is postponed results in the loss of nearly 50 million trees and the release of 16.8 million tonnes of CO\u2082 into the atmosphere.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The senior official also complained about a stipulation in the law that if the level of deforestation in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":825069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5174],"tags":[6850,943,1395,2437,6641,728,2000,299,5187,1699,1214,6644,10779,37846,19912,475,806,105060,10544,27647,2441,2661,8753,11666,2343,1199,7161,6648,1201,49,2150],"class_list":["post-825068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-beef","tag-canada","tag-china","tag-companies","tag-competitiveness","tag-environment","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-european-union","tag-exports","tag-farmers","tag-farms","tag-feed","tag-ghana","tag-imports","tag-industry","tag-jessika-roswall","tag-kenya","tag-livestock","tag-markets","tag-oil","tag-palm-oil","tag-produce","tag-research","tag-services","tag-soybeans","tag-supply-chains","tag-trade","tag-united-states","tag-vietnam"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116227116984825855","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}