Furniture can be defined as one of our basic needs that we need in every aspect of our daily life and directly affect our quality of life. Rising living standards, urban transformation projects, population growth and increasing demand abroad directly affect the furniture sector. Furniture industry; with an average of $ 437 billion a year, with its main, auxiliary and subsidiary components. The leader of the world furniture market (talking about a $ 177.5 billion market) is China with a market share of 34%. This is a tremendous Turkey's share is about 1.4% with 2.4 billion pie. World furniture exports; Germany is second, Italy third, Poland fourth and USA fifth. In Turkey in 2014, 228 countries in the world, engaged in the export of furniture than 14 countries have achieved a great success as a horse.

The Turkish furniture sector, which is oriented to local and global markets, produces a wide range of products. employment sector, one of the highest capacity furniture sector in Turkey, according to data from 2015, realized export nearly 2 billion dollars in 214 countries. The export target of the Turkish furniture sector in 2023 is 10 billion dollars. In 2015, the furniture sector in Turkey is Iraq's most exporting countries. Saudi Arabia is in the second place. These two countries respectively; Libya, Germany and Azerbaijan followed. Turkish furniture industry, as a sector with high added value, provides almost all of its raw materials (especially the materials such as textiles, artificial leather and genuine leather used in the flooring, wood materials, metal and glass materials) from the domestic market. Looked at from this perspective, Turkey is the world furniture market in order to be able to have a greater say;

Urgently reducing the high raw material and energy costs in front of the sector,
Speeding up the studies that will benefit the development of the sector in terms of R & D and patents,
Production in compliance with international standards and quality requirements,
Providing facilities for furniture manufacturing and exporting by the state,
To work on increasing the education level of the workforce employed in the furniture sector,
Reducing SSI premiums to EU countries to reduce labor costs,
More participation in international fairs,
is required.

As of 2020, 500 billion dollars a volume to reach the expected world furniture market, falling to Turkey's share (at least 5%) in order to receive, to increase the resolve and the international competitiveness of the existing problems is a necessity.

Resources :

General Secretary of Central Anatolian Exporters' Association, Furniture Sector Report-2016
trademap.org
tuik.gov.t is