The topic of wood exports from Poland abroad returns, including China. “The climate resort shows only selected data convenient for the ministry,” the portal said Money.plwhich in this topic received data from the National Tax Administration. It turns out that despite the announcement Wood exports from Poland to China did not decrease, on the contrary, it increased strongly. In 2024, nearly 2.6 million tons of wood were sold, and a year earlier they were over 2 million tons. The data show that in 2024 Wood exports from our country increased by over 23 percent. Compared to 2023, and exports to China increased by over 25 percent.
The State Forests explain themselves. “We care about the highest possible added value”
In an interview with Gazeta.pl, Marcin Polak, deputy director of the State Forests for Economic, explained that For years, the State Forests have not sold wood directly to any entity registered outside the EU. – But when a Polish entrepreneur buys wood from us, he has it as his property. AND It happens that it is fed abroad. Sometimes this is due to the situation in which a given enterprise, e.g. by fewer orders, has excess raw material. And sometimes its main activity is trade or export – said the deputy director.
The Pole explained that although the State Forests are unable to prevent export, they promote those entrepreneurs who process wood locally. – We also promote “deep” processing of wood, because we care about the highest possible value for the Polish economy – said Cezary Godziszewski from the Marketing Department of the General Directorate of State Forests. – It is also worth noting that since entrepreneurs pay off to buy wood from us and sell it with their margin, the price of wood from the State Forests is attractive – he added.
Ministry of Climate and Environment: State Forests are not an exporter, but a producer
The Communication Department of the Ministry of the Climate and Environment replied Money.pl that the level of wood exports depends on many factors, and some of them are completely independent of the department's actions. “State forests are not an exporter, but a producer. They do not take any action aimed at leaving the goods (i.e. wood) of the EU. The task of the State Forests is the production and sale of wood” – explained. It has been added that only to a small extent and indirectly influence what happens with wood after selling to contractors.
The climate ministry explained that it supports the changes that lead to limiting the export of wood from Poland. The Ministry of Climate and Environment said that many actions have been taken and the first effects “should be partly visible in the current and subsequent wood sales cycle.”
The government made announcements on the export of wood from Poland. Not much came of it
At the beginning of 2025, Deputy Minister of the Climate Mikołaj Dorożała said that until now it was so that it was possible to buy wood and declare that it was processed in Poland, and in fact sold, e.g. to China. – We want to change it – he declared in an interview with Money.pl.
In exposé prime minister Donald Tusk, and later also the minister of the climate and the community Paulina Hennig-Kloska announced a reduction in the export of unprocessed wood from Poland, which went mainly to China. At the end of December 2024, Hennig-Kloska boasted at platform xthat in the second half of 2024 there was a decrease to 60 percent. Wood exports to China, relative to the first half of the year. This is a decrease of over 100,000 tons of heating and raw wood.