Exports of timber and timber products from Ukraine since the beginning of 2025 amounted to 1.42 million tons, worth $671.8 million, which is 6% or 81.7 thousand tons more than in the same period of 2024, according to the State Customs Service (SCS). The State Customs Service (DMS) press service reported this.
The agency noted that pine products accounted for the largest share of exports (68.6% of the total), followed by spruce (19%) and oak (6.6%).
At the same time, since the beginning of 2025, customs authorities have detected violations amounting to more than UAH 31.4 million. In early May 2025, in cooperation with the State Forestry Agency, a whole scheme of illegal export of 2.9 thousand cubic meters of timber worth UAH 13.6 million was uncovered. In all 98 cases, business entities from one of the country’s regions submitted certificates of origin for timber issued for other consignments of goods to the customs authorities for the export of timber. In all cases, reports on customs violations were drawn up against the entrepreneurs, according to the State Customs Service.
To systematically eliminate the conditions for such violations, the State Customs Service, together with the Ministry of Environmental Protection and the State Forestry Agency, is preparing proposals for legislative changes that will provide customs authorities with automatic access to information submitted by exporters to obtain certificates.
The State Customs Service added that since the start of the full-scale invasion, confiscated timber worth UAH 14.2 million has been transferred to the defenders of Ukraine.
