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ISPM
15 Solid Wood Packaging Update
(November 29, 2007) Based on published regulations by the countries below, the following are now or soon will be enforcing ISPM 15: Norway: January 1, 2008 Summary information for countries that have begun implementation or announced plans to implement ISPM-15: Argentina: June 1,2006 Australia: September 1, 2004 (Variations to ISPM-15: Bark-free + packing declaration for ISPM-15 compliant WPM, 21-day rule does not apply); January 1, 2006 will add wood packaging used in break bulk and air cargo to their ISPM-15 enforcement. Bulgaria: January 24, 2006 Bolivia: July 23, 2005 (Variation: Debarked WPM) Brazil: June 1, 2005 Canada: September 16, 2005 (Note: Phase-in implementation; exemption granted to U.S.) Chile: June 1, 2005 (Variation: Debarked WPM) China: January 1, 2006 (Variation: MB fumigation for softwood packaging must use the 24-hour treatment schedule.) Colombia: September 16, 2005 Costa Rica: March 19, 2006 Dominican Republic: July 1, 2006 Ecuador: September 20, 2005 (Date change: previously April 26, 2004) Egypt: October 1, 2005 European Union: March 1, 2005 Guatemala: September 16, 2005 Honduras: February 25, 2006 India: November 1, 2004 (Variation: Phytosanitary certificate required only for WPM not ISPM-15 compliant) Indonesia: No published date of implementation Japan: January 2007 (tentative date of implementation) Jordan: November 17, 2005 Kenya: January 2006 (published May 2006) Lebanon: March 26, 2006 Mexico: September 16, 2005 (Note: Phase-in implementation since January 1, 2004) New Zealand: April 16, 2003 (Variation: Bark-free WPM) Nicaragua: No published date of implementation Nigeria: September 30, 2004 Oman: December 2006 Panama: Not yet enforcing ISPM 15 Paraguay: June 28, 2005 Peru: March 1, 2005 Philippines: June 1, 2005 Seychelles (off the east coast of Africa): March 1, 2006 South Africa: January 1, 2005 (Variation: 24-MB schedule for softwood packaging) South Korea: June 1, 2005 (Variation: MB fumigation for softwood packaging must use the 24-hour treatment schedule.) Switzerland: March 1, 2005 Syria: April 1, 2006 Trinidad & Tobago: September 15, 2005 Turkey: January 1, 2006 (Variation: Debarked WPM) Ukraine: October 1, 2005 U.S.: September 16, 2005 (Note: Phase-in implementation; exemption granted to Canada -- must provide import declaration that shipment derived from trees harvested in U.S. or Canada -- import lumber must be ISPM-15) Venezuela: June 1, 2005 Vietnam: June 5, 2005 Methyl Bromide Schedule
Effective September 18, 2006, the Enforcement Committee of the Methyl
Bromide Program has adopted the 24 hour fumigation program of all
WPM. Wood Packaging Material treated and marked prior to this effective
date does not need to be retreated, remarked or recertified. The Department of Defense has announced that its shipments both “inside
and outside of the United States must meet ISPM 15.”
This requirement will be reflected in Defense Logistic Agency solicitations
issued as of August 1, 2006. DOD wood packaging materials must be
heat treated, (DOD does not accept fumigation as a treatment method
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