Belarus is a tycoon of wood production in Europe, as forests occupy 39 percent of the country’s territory. her territory. Therefore, the sanctions imposed in March 2022 were to be particularly severe for this country. However, as it turns out, despite increased controls, Belarusian wood continues to enter Poland, thus bypassing the imposed restrictions.
For an MP’s question PiS Grzegorz Wojciechowski, which money.pl describes as the first, was answered by the National Revenue Administration. She points out that carried out 4,888 border controls, of which 61 were found to be irregular. In addition, KAS submitted 62 notifications to law enforcement authorities for circumventing sanctions. On the other hand, 2 of them concerned the incorrect classification of goods.
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Timber from Belarus gets to Poland
According to the answer WHAT, timber from Belarus and Russia reaches Poland mainly through Kazakhstan. As they added, if there is a suspicion that a tree may come from sanctioned countries, IAS directors may carry out additional analyzes to determine the true country of origin of the imported timber.
National Revenue Administration has started cooperation with an accredited laboratory that is able to conduct a thorough analysis. Thanks to this, CAS can find out from which geographical region the imported wood comes fromand therefore decide whether or not to notify.
An increase of 1,104,157 percent.
This may suggest that the process is much larger, though The National Revenue Administration reported then that it had submitted 80 notifications to law enforcement authorities.
As can be seen, the number of notifications has decreased, but there are still cases where timber from sanctioned countries ends up in Poland. However, European data show a massive increase in timber imports from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan in 2022.
In 2022, there was an increase in timber imports from Kazakhstan by 9,926.8 percent. compared to the previous year. Moreover, as estimated European Commissionthe value of timber shipped is EUR 39 million.
An even greater increase in timber imports to the European Union was recorded by Kyrgyzstan. As can be seen from the above data, in 2022, the value of imported wood from this country amounted to EUR 14 million, an increase of 1,104,157 percent. compared to the previous year.
The Polish timber industry is sounding the alarm
The current situation is unprecedented, for the first time in their many years of history, the largest factories stop technological lines due to the inability to sell their products, we can read in the letter.
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2023-08-20 09:05:59
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