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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. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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