This dataset constitutes supporting material to the publication 'Eighty-six EU policy options for reducing imported deforestation', forthcoming in the journal One Earth. Contained in this dataset are the 1,141 original policy proposals that are identified in grey literature and a European Commission (EC) public consultation, as well as the assessment of the political feasibility of each of the 86 summary policy options derived from the original proposals. Political feasibility is assessed across three determinants: (1) ‘advocacy’, which measure the support for a policy across different actors; (2) ‘institutional setting’, which captures the institutional complexity of defining and adopting a given policy; and (3) ‘costs’, which express the magnitude and distribution of societal costs resulting from policy implementation.