Furniture, Paper and Forest Products Sector Targets End of 2028 in Exports

Noting that they serve three sub-sectors: furniture, paper and non-wood forest products, Gürle said, “While our paper and paper products exports are at the level of 538 million dollars, the non-wood forest products we call laurel, thyme, linden, sage, rosemary, medicinal plants, oak Our exports, which include products such as acorns, were around 103 million dollars in the same year and accounted for 68 percent of Turkey's overall exports of these products. When we look at the furniture industry, I would like to add a footnote; While Turkey's furniture exports amounted to 2001 million dollars in 192, it increased significantly and reached 2023 billion dollars in 5,1. "Our union's furniture exports reached 224 million dollars," he said.

"We aim to achieve our export targets in 2024 with TURQUALITY, UR-GE projects, Sectoral Trade Delegations and Procurement Delegation organizations, and we aim to exceed the 10 billion dollar export threshold in 2024 with a 1 percent increase," said Gürle and continued as follows; “When we look at the first two months of 2024, we see a 6 percent increase compared to the previous year. In order to reach a 10 percent average export increase, we need to work harder and produce more projects in 2024. Our Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Ur-Ge Project, Turkish Herbal Tea Turquality Project, Furniture Turquality Project, Aegean Furniture Ur-Ge Project, Game Changing Design Competition, Procurement Delegation and Sectoral Trade Delegations, Fair organizations, our new projects we have implemented to reach the 1 billion dollar export target. . “Our consultations are continuing to add rings to these projects.”

WE ARE TRYING TO DIVERSIFY OUR EXPORT MARKETS

Providing information about the strong markets of the Aegean Furniture Paper and Forest Products Exporters Association in 2023, Union President Ali Fuar Gürle said, “The countries to which we export the most in medicinal and aromatic plants, which we call non-wood forest products, are the USA, Germany and France, respectively. We make 94 percent of Turkey's thyme exports from the Aegean Region. Our strongest product in exporting non-wood forest products is thyme. Our main export markets in the Paper Industry are; "While Iran, Egypt and England, we exported the most from the Aegean in the furniture industry to Germany, the Netherlands and the USA in 2023," he summarized.