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
Protecting our Agricultural Exports
•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
“CANADIAN RAIL”
Canadian Pacific
Canadian National
Ocean containers off-loaded in Canadian
deep water ports.
•Vancouver
•Halifax
•Montreal
SOLID WOOD PACKING
MATERIAL (SWPM)
What can come in on SWPM?
Asian Longhorned Beetle
Dutch Elm Disease
Pine Shoot Beetle
Balsam Woolly Adelgid
SWPM PESTS 1996-1998
PESTS IN SWPM 1996-1998
JAPAN
13
MEXICO
21
FRANCE
22
RUSSIAN FEDERATION
24
BELGIUM
24
SOUTH AFRICA
25
PORTUGAL
TURKEY
INDIA
SPAIN
ITALY
ALL OTHER COUNTRIES LESS
THAN 1% EACH
CHINA
33
39
47
79
189
222
467
1996-1998 SWPM PEST TYPE
SWPM PEST TYPE 1996-1998
ALL OTHERS <1% EACH
5%
HORNTAILS-WOODWASPS
2%
METALIC WOOD BORERS
3%
WEEVILS
6%
TWIG BORERS
4%
BARK BEETLES
45%
LONGHORNED BEETLES
35%
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.
Interceptions from Chinese SWPM
VS
The Rest of the World
New Rule:
•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 be necessary 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”
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.
THE STANDARD
METHYL BROMIDE FUMIGATION (MB)
HEAT TREATMENT (HT)
SWPM should be heated in accordance with a specific timetemperature schedule that achieves a minimum wood core
temperature of 56c for a minimum of 30 minutes. (Examples: kiln
drying or chemical pressure impregnation - CPI)
TARGET
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.
ACHIEVING EQUIVELENCY
WHO ELSE IS IMPLEMENTING THESE STANDARDS?
•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 ISPM15 and 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.
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.
WHAT DOES
THE CERTIFICATION LOOK LIKE?
The IPPC will issues stamps for the SWPM with
it’s trademarked symbol to Authorized Facilities
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.
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