On May 22, the European Commission (EC) released its long-awaited country benchmarking classifications under the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR). This system classifies 194 countries by deforestation risk across seven commodities—cattle, cocoa, coffee, oil palm, rubber, soy, and wood—marking a key milestone in the EC’s rollout of the EUDR. For many in the environmental and policy world though, the results were both underwhelming and deeply concerning.