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Association of Furniture and Woodworking Enterprises of Russia suggests imposing safeguard duties on imported furniture

May 22, 2025 ` 19:32  
The Association shared an initiative to impose safeguard duties on furniture from unfriendly countries. It submitted the corresponding address to the Ministry of Industry and Trade in the end of March, according to Kommersant. The Association suggests increasing...

Russian furniture market in 2024: maintaining growth due to higher product prices

March 24, 2025 ` 10:52  
According to tentative data from the Association of Furniture and Woodworking Enterprises of Russia, the Russian furniture production grew in both physical (+12.6% YoY, up to 75.7 million pieces) and monetary terms (+17.3% YoY, up to 522 billion...

Federal Customs Service will cancel the duty on furniture hardware from China

January 9, 2025 ` 19:52  
In the fall of 2024, the Russian Customs Service introduced an almost 66% duty on imported Chinese furniture hardware. The Federal Customs Service started re-qualifying this product, changing its HS Code, and applying the new duty. The Association...

Russian furniture may become 15% more expensive because of duties imposed on Chinese hardware

December 13, 2024 ` 11:49  
The Russian customs office has sharply increased the duty on furniture hardware imported from China, as reported by Forbes referencing the Association of Furniture and Woodworking Enterprises of Russia. Starting from fall 2024, the Vladivostok Customs Office, through...

Over 9 months of 2024, furniture production in the Northwestern Federal District increased by 23% in monetary terms

November 28, 2024 ` 19:27  
In January–September 2024, enterprises from the Northwestern Federal District increased their furniture production by 23% YoY, up to 34.5 billion rubles, as reported by Kommersant referencing data by the Association of Furniture and Woodworking Enterprises of Russia. Notably,...

Timur Irtuganov, Director General, AFWIER: “The Russian furniture industry has all of a sudden turned “from a Cinderella into a princess” of the timber industry over the past 10 years”

October 28, 2024 ` 17:21  
The Association of Furniture and Woodworking Enterprises of Russia (AFWIER) is a voluntary professional & civil society non-profit organization established in 1997 to consolidate the efforts of overcoming crisis phenomena in the furniture and woodworking industry and creating...

Retail furniture sales in Russia grew by 10% in H1 2024

October 24, 2024 ` 20:51  
In H1 2024, the volume of retail furniture sales in Russia rose by 10% YoY, up to almost 250 billion rubles, as reported by Rossiyskaya Gazeta (“Russian Newspaper”) referencing the Association of Furniture and Woodworking Enterprises of Russia....