WOODPACKING MATERIAL

NEW REQUIREMENTSFOR IMPORT/EXPORT

Jeffrey DavidsonUSDA Plant Protection and Quarantine

Export Certification Specialistand

Mark GrzeszkowiakCustoms and Border ProtectionAQI Canadian Rail Supervisor

WHO ARE WE?WHO ARE WE?

•ERADICATION

•CONTROL

Protecting our Agricultural Exports

•EXCLUSIONEXCLUSION

Protecting The United States and it’s AgricultureThe 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

Ocean containers off-loaded in Canadian deep water ports.

Canadian Pacific Canadian National

•Vancouver•Halifax•Montreal

“CANADIAN RAIL”

SOLID WOOD PACKING MATERIAL (SWPM)

What can come in on SWPM?

Pine Shoot BeetleAsian Longhorned Beetle

Dutch Elm Disease Balsam Woolly Adelgid

SWPM PESTS 1996-1998PESTS IN SWPM 1996-1998

467

222

189

79

47

39

33

25

24

24

22

21

13

CHINA

ALL OTHER COUNTRIES LESSTHAN 1% EACH

ITALY

SPAIN

INDIA

TURKEY

PORTUGAL

SOUTH AFRICA

BELGIUM

RUSSIAN FEDERATION

FRANCE

MEXICO

JAPAN

1996-1998 SWPM PEST TYPESWPM PEST TYPE 1996-1998

BARK BEETLES45%

LONGHORNED BEETLES35%

TWIG BORERS4%

METALIC WOOD BORERS3%

HORNTAILS-WOODWASPS2%

WEEVILS6%

ALL OTHERS <1% EACH5%

Current Regulations Title 7 CFR 319.40

include•Bark on wood packing material is prohibited.Bark on wood packing material is prohibited.

•In 1998 SWPM from China became prohibited In 1998 SWPM from China became prohibited unless it is unless it is treatedtreated by kiln drying or by kiln drying or

fumigation fumigation beforebefore exported and the treatment exported and the treatment is is certifiedcertified by the Chinese government. by the Chinese government.

Interceptions from Chinese SWPMVS

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

StandardProducts 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 STANDARDMETHYL BROMIDE FUMIGATION (MB)

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)

TARGETThe 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.

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.

ACHIEVING EQUIVELENCY

The IPPC will issues stamps for the SWPM with it’s trademarked symbol to Authorized Facilities

WHAT DOES THE CERTIFICATION LOOK LIKE?

Procedures on Fumigation with Methyl Bromide

The National Wood Pallet and Container Association

www.palletcentral.com (703) 519-6104.

FOR PROCEEDURES TO HAVE EXPORT SWPM CERTIFIED WITH THE IPPC STAMP

Procedures for Heat TreatmentThe American Lumber Standards Committee

www.alsc.org (301)972-1700.

For More Information check the USDA APHIS PPQ

website athttp://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