Timber traders, pallet makers, and furniture suppliers selling into Europe will not have to trace bamboo, rattan, or used and second-hand wood to a forest plot after the European Commission’s rewrite of the EU Deforestation Regulation’s product list came into force on Friday. That is according to Delegated Regulation 2026/2102, which now excludes used and second-hand goods under the headings for logs, sawn timber, plywood, joinery, and furniture. “The same applies to components of relevant products covered by those codes if they qualify as waste, used or second-hand products,” the act states. Reclaimed timber built into new furniture or joinery is therefore out, with the Commission adding the exclusion because the old wording risked “discouraging circular and resource efficient practices”. …By contrast, sawmill chips and sawdust under heading 4401 get no used-goods exclusion, and fall outside the regulation only where they qualify as waste under the EU’s Waste Framework Directive or serve as single-use packing.