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WOOD PACKING MATERIAL

WOOD PACKING MATERIAL. NEW REQUIREMENTS FOR IMPORT/EXPORT Jeffrey Davidson USDA Plant Protection and Quarantine Export Certification Specialist and Mark Grzeszkowiak Customs and Border Protection AQI Canadian Rail Supervisor. WHO ARE WE?. ERADICATION CONTROL.

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WOOD PACKING MATERIAL

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  1. WOODPACKING MATERIAL NEW REQUIREMENTS FOR IMPORT/EXPORT Jeffrey Davidson USDA Plant Protection and Quarantine Export Certification Specialist and Mark Grzeszkowiak Customs and Border Protection AQI Canadian Rail Supervisor

  2. WHO ARE WE? • ERADICATION • CONTROL Protecting our Agricultural Exports

  3. EXCLUSION Protecting The United States and it’s Agriculture The Homeland Security Act of 2002 (the Act). Section 421 of the Act transferred to DHS functions of APHIS relating to agricultural import and entry inspection. Unifying Cargo Processing IMPORT REGULATION

  4. “CANADIAN RAIL” Canadian Pacific Canadian National Ocean containers off-loaded in Canadian deep water ports. • Vancouver • Halifax • Montreal

  5. SOLID WOOD PACKING MATERIAL (SWPM)

  6. What can come in on SWPM? Asian Longhorned Beetle Pine Shoot Beetle Dutch Elm Disease Balsam Woolly Adelgid

  7. SWPM PESTS 1996-1998

  8. 1996-1998 SWPM PEST TYPE

  9. Current Regulations Title 7 CFR 319.40 include • Bark on wood packing material is prohibited. • In 1998 SWPM from China became prohibited unless it is treated by kiln drying or fumigation before exported and the treatment is certified by the Chinese government.

  10. Interceptions from Chinese SWPMVSThe Rest of the World

  11. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service amend our wood import regulations to adopt an international standard. • That standard, entitled “Guidelines for Regulating Wood Packaging Materials in International Trade” drafted by the IPPC (Interim Commission on Phytosanitary Measures of the International Plant Protection Convention on March 15, • 2002) • “because they represent the current international standard determined to benecessary and effective for controlling pests in wood packaging material used in global trade, and because current United States requirements for wood packaging material are not fully effective” New Rule:

  12. Specific Components of the Wood Packing Material Standard Products affected by International Standard include unprocessed raw wood (hardwood/softwood) packaging including dunnage Wood Packing Material made entirely of processed manufactured wood (plywood, particle board, OSB, veneer) is exempt from the standard. Raw Wood less than 6mm in thickness is also exempt.

  13. METHYL BROMIDE FUMIGATION (MB) THE STANDARD HEAT TREATMENT (HT) SWPM should be heated in accordance with a specific time-temperature schedule that achieves a minimum wood core temperature of 56c for a minimum of 30 minutes. (Examples: kiln drying or chemical pressure impregnation - CPI)

  14. The treatments in the standard are effective in controlling bark beetles and wood borers, which are 95 percent of the pests that we intercept coming in on solid wood packing material. TARGET

  15. ACHIEVING EQUIVELENCY • CHINA - Adopted the ISPM15 standard that would also replace the requirements we have placed on China and Hong Kong starting on Jan. 1st, 2005. • CANADA and MEXICO – Adopted the ISPM15and will start accepting ISPM15 treated and marked SWPM June 1st, 2004. • INDIA - Adopted the ISPM15 and will start accepting ISPM15 treated and marked SWPM June 1st, 2004. • REPUBLIC OF KOREA – Adopted the ISPM15 and will enforce the ISPM15 June 1st, 2005. • SOUTH AFRICA – Notified the IPPC of intent to adopted ISPM15, no date for enforcement. WHO ELSE IS IMPLEMENTING THESE STANDARDS? The Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agreement requires members of the World Trade Organization to treat trading partners similarly and the US is a member of the World Trade Organization. Adopting the IPPC standard helps the US achieve harmonized phytosanitary measures with its major trading partners, who are all signers of the IPPC and also are expected to adopt the IPPC standard.

  16. WHAT DOES THE CERTIFICATION LOOK LIKE? The IPPC will issues stamps for the SWPM with it’s trademarked symbol to Authorized Facilities

  17. FOR PROCEEDURES TO HAVE EXPORT SWPM CERTIFIED WITH THE IPPC STAMP Procedures for Heat Treatment The American Lumber Standards Committee www.alsc.org (301)972-1700. Procedures on Fumigation with Methyl Bromide The National Wood Pallet and Container Association www.palletcentral.com (703) 519-6104.

  18. For More Information check the USDA APHIS PPQ website at http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ppq/swp/ • For local import SWPM questions contact the CBP AQI Cargo Office (847) 298-5075 or 3136 • For local export SWPM questions contact the USDA, APHIS, PPQ (847) 299-6939

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