{"id":422145,"date":"2026-02-12T17:47:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T17:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/422145\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T17:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T17:47:12","slug":"united-kingdoms-wood-pellet-imports-rise-4-8-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/422145\/","title":{"rendered":"United Kingdom\u2019s wood pellet imports rise 4.8% in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Kingdom imported 9.76 million tons of wood pellets in 2025, up 4.8% from a year earlier, while import value rose 8.3% to $2,288 million and the average import price increased 3.4% to $235 per ton, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lesprom.com\/en\/analytics\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lesprom Analytics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The United States supplied 74% of the United Kingdom\u2019s wood pellet imports by volume, shipping 7.23 million tons, up 4.2%. Import value from the United States rose 9.8% to $1,740 million and the average price increased 5.4% to $241 per ton, while the U.S. share of supplies fell by 0.4 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p>Latvia supplied 12% of imports, shipping 1.14 million tons, up 26.2%. Import value rose 36.9% to $257 million and the average price increased 8.5% to $225 per ton, while Latvia\u2019s share rose by 2.0 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p>Canada supplied 9% of imports, shipping 903 thousand tons, up 51.2%. Import value rose 44.0% to $181 million, while the average price fell 4.8% to $201 per ton, and Canada\u2019s share increased by 2.9 percentage points.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"news-image-db\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cR8GhOFO3psUDSvHUyxF.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Image: United Kingdom wood pellet imports by supplier, monthly volumes in 2025 (thousand tons) \/ Lesprom Analytics<\/p>\n<p>Estonia supplied 184 thousand tons, up 30.2%, but import value fell 12.6% to $38 million as the average price declined 32.9% to $205 per ton. The Netherlands shipped 74 thousand tons, down 78.9%, with import value down 74.3% to $22 million and the average price up 22.1% to $295 per ton.<\/p>\n<p>Panama shipped 63 thousand tons, up 122.3%, with import value rising 133.1% to $13 million and the average price up 4.9% to $213 per ton. Portugal supplied 68 thousand tons, down 3.2%, with import value down 15.9% to $13 million and the average price down 13.1% to $183 per ton.<\/p>\n<p>Germany shipped 40 thousand tons, down 47.1%, with import value down 46.1% to $11 million and the average price up 1.9% to $267 per ton. Lithuania supplied 16 thousand tons, up 110.5%, with import value rising 115.6% to $4 million and an average price of about $240 per ton, up 2.4%. Belgium shipped 12 thousand tons, down 79.9%, with import value down 74.4% to $3 million and the average price up 27.1% to $233 per ton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United Kingdom imported 9.76 million tons of wood pellets in 2025, up 4.8% from a year earlier,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-422145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}