In the EU, furniture represents 2%,4,% of the production value of the manufacturing sector, around 2% of the GDP and 2.2% of the total workforce. There are about 250 000 persons who work in the supply network and 600 000 persons who work in retail industries. In the year 2001, the furniture industry’s turnover reached 82.2 billion EUR. The European furniture industry, as a whole, accounts for about half of the world furniture production. This paper reviewed the production and marketing situation in the European furniture industry, and suggested that China’s furniture manufacturers should focus on the EU market instead of only on the US market.