Europe’s latest efforts to green its supply chains have hit a roadblock. The European Commission on Wednesday proposed a one-year delay to the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), which was supposed to be implemented in December.

Officials from leading exporters of affected commodities—including Brazil, Indonesia and the Ivory Coast—object to the EU’s regulation. A growing number of governments, international trade organizations and businesses are urging the European Union to reconsider a deforestation regulation set to take effect in December.

The European Commission wants to delay an anti-deforestation law by one year, but a market specialist says it’s unclear how soon that might happen. Rosalind Leeck, the executive director of market access and strategy with the U.