Shipping With Wood International Requirements

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Shipping With WoodInternational Requirements

• A General Overview Presentation of the Global
  Export Wood Packaging Standard, IPPC ISPM 15
• Information Provided by
• Northeastern Lumber Manufacturers Association

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• Information Topics Presented
• The Reason
• IPPC ISPM 15
• Requirements by Country
• About NELMA
• NELMA Inspection Program
• Q A

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• The Reason

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• The Reason
• Growing global trade and the significant spread
  of pests detrimental to forests and crops,
  attributed to hitchhiking or hatching from
  green wood packaging materials.

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• Gifts Already Sent to the U.S.
• Asian Longhorn Beetle

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• Gifts Already Sent to the U.S.
• Emerald Ash Borer

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• Gifts Already Sent to the U.S.
• European Wood Wasp

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• The Beginning EU 2001
• First to develop a comprehensive phytosanitary
  verification standard for inbound solid wood
  packaging materials.
• Regulation specifics were adopted from the 2001
  draft version of the International Wood
  Packaging Standard.

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• The Beginning EU 2001
• Pinewood Nematode concern and evidence in
  softwood packaging being received from the
  U.S., Canada, China, and Japan.

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• The Beginning EU 2001
• Heat Treatment Requirement
• - 56 degrees C for 30 minutes at the lumber
  core.
• Fumigation
• - Methyl Bromide (MB) only fumigant
  accepted, and at specific time/concentration
  rates.

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• International Standard
• IPPC ISPM 15

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• International Standard IPPC ISPM 15
• Adopted by members of the World Trade
  Organization (WTO) in March of 2003.
• ALL solid wood packaging material required to
  be heat treated (HT) or fumigated (MB).

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• International Standard ISPM 15
• Each individual country to set implementation
  and enforcement dates.
• Composite materials exempt.
• Packaging must be stamped with the IPPC mark
  

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• International Standard ISPM 15
• Two step verification process.
• Sample stamp required to be applied to a
  minimum of 2 sides of packaging

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• Requirements by Country

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• European Union (EU)
• Now 25 countries.
• ISPM 15 implemented on January 1, 2005 with
  enforcement March 1, 2005.

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• China
• ISPM 15 implemented on January 1, 2006.
• USDA APHIS Form 553 no longer available for
  shipments.

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• Australia
• ISPM 15 standard implemented on September 1,
  2004.
• New standard will exist in parallel to current
  Australian standard at this time, giving
  importers both options.
• Additional requirement to ISPM 15 is materials
  must be free of bark.

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• India
• Accept/Require ISPM 15 stamped wood packaging
  materials effective June 1, 2004.
• APHIS will not be issuing phytosanitary
  certificates for shipments.

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• Brazil
• Full implementation of ISPM 15 stamped wood
  packaging, effective June 1, 2005.

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• US, Canada, Mexico
• All members of NAPPO coordinated
  implementation and enforcement of ISPM 15
  beginning September 16, 2005.
• Wood packaging materials between US and Canada
  exempt from regulation.

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• About NELMA

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• About NELMA
• Established in 1933
• Headquartered in Cumberland, Maine with a staff
  of inspectors strategically located to best
  serve the membership.
• The grade rules writing agency
• for Eastern White Pine lumber.

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• About NELMA
• An agency accredited by the American Lumber
  Standard Committee (ALSC) to provide inspection
  programs for lumber, timbers, heat treatment,
  and wood packaging.

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• The NELMA Inspection Program

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• NELMA Inspection Program
• One of 16 ALSC-accredited agencies.
• Follow APHIS-ALSC IPPC ISPM 15 Enforcement
  Procedures.

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• NELMA Inspection Program
• Current Subscribers in the NELMA WPM Program as
  of 6/1/06
• 360 Facilities in the Northeast, Midwest,
• Mid Atlantic, and Great Lakes Regions
• of the US.

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• NELMA Inspection Program
• Inspection Program Categories
• - Wood Packaging Manufacturers or Assemblers of
  Wood Packaging such as freight forwarders.
• - Heat treaters of wood packaging.
• - Component Manufacturers for Wood Packaging.

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• NELMA Inspection Program
• Wood Packaging Mfgrs Assemblers
• - Must purchase HT-stamped and certified lumber
  and/or components for use in wood packaging.
• - Purchase records, inventory and usage reports,
  and shipment invoices checked and monitored.
• - Stamp legibility critical checked on
  inventory.

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• NELMA Inspection Program
• Heat Treaters of Wood Packaging
• - Heat Treatment chambers are certified
  initially to ensure compliance with the 56
  degrees C for 30 minutes at the lumber core
  requirements.
• - Treatment time/temperature records checks for
  each cycle thereafter, with inventory and
  shipment reports.

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• NELMA Inspection Program
• Component Manufacturers
• - Must purchase HT-stamped and certified lumber
  for remanufacturing into components for wood
  packaging.
• - Purchase records, inventory and usage reports,
  and shipment invoices checked and monitored.

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• NELMA Inspection Program
• Inspection Provisions to a Facility as a
  Subscriber to NELMAs Program
• - Minimum of 12 inspections/year to ensure
  compliance with regulations.
• - Licensed agreement to use IPPC/HT stamp on all
  conforming wood packaging.

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• NELMA Inspection Program
• Program Provisions to Facility as A Subscriber
  to NeLMAs Program (cont)
• - News Flashes via email regarding new IPPC
  implementations or revisions by any country.
• - 24/7 availability online of the IPPC Country
  Table, via password protected page on
  www.nelma.org

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• Questions and Answers

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• Questions and Answers
• If non-compliant wood packing materials are used
  in a shipment to a country that has implemented
  ISPM 15..what happens?
• - refused entry returned,
• - destroyed,
• - treated at the port
• All costly outcomes causing considerable delay
  of delivery of product to the customer.

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• Questions and Answers
• What documentation will be required to accompany
  the shipment?
• -USDA APHIS no longer issues phytosanitary
  certificates for any country destination. For
  some countries such as Australia, a self
  declaration by the exporter is necessary in a
  specific format as outlined in their regulations.

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• Contact NeLMA
• Phone [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• email info_at_nelma.org
• website nelma.org