Officials from leading exporters of affected commodities—including Brazil, Indonesia and the Ivory Coast—object to the EU's regulation.

Its EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), announced in late 2021 and intended to help cut greenhouse gas emissions and limit biodiversity loss, was due to come into force before the

The EUDR, which will require that any company that sells a product containing wood in the European Union prove that its source tree was not cut down in a deforested region, is likely to take effect next December,