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New Treatments for Wood Packaging Materials
Canada has amended the implementation date for D-98-08 Entry Requirements for Wood
Packaging Materials Produced in All Areas Other than the Continental United States.
These specific import requirements for wood packaging came into force on June 1,
2004. The change in implementation date is in regard to a North American Plant Protection Organization agreement.
About the measures
Heat or chemical treatment of wood packaging materials will kill Asian
long-horned beetles and other exotic plant pests living inside solid wood packaging
materials. Wood packaging materials include wood or wood products (excluding paper
products) used in supporting, protecting or carrying a commodity (includes dunnage).
A Phytosanitary Certificate is not required. A phytosanitary certificate
may be used as an alternative to the marking systems prescribed below.
All non-manufactured wood packaging materials may enter Canada provided
the material has been officially treated by one of the methods specified in Appendix 1 of D-98-08. A logo or
mark, officially endorsed by the NPPO of the country from which the wood packaging materials originates
must be permanently affixed to each unit of wood packaging materials. More details on the
mark are provided in Appendix 2
of D-98-08. A phytosanitary certificate may be used in lieu of a logo or mark as
prescribed above.
Any regulated material found to be in non-compliance with the import
requirements specified above may be ordered removed from Canada. Until September 16, 2005,
the CFIA may permit the entry of wood packaging materials from countries that do not have
certification systems in place. Phase-in
procedures for D-98-08.
The Asian long-horned beetle threat
Asian-long-horned beetles bore into trees used in the manufacture of wood
packaging materials and emerge at export destinations.
They threaten to spread into Canadian hardwood forests, jeopardizing $11
billion in wood products annually. They tunnel into healthy trunks and branches,
eventually killing the trees.
They primarily attack maple trees, which are a national symbol in Canada
and the basis of a maple syrup industry worth $100 million annually or 80 per cent of the
world market.
The beetles have no known natural predators in Canada.
The bigger picture
Asian long-horned beetles, while of immediate concern, are only one of a
growing number of potentially destructive foreign insects threatening Canadian forests and
crops. Others include Asian gypsy moth, Japanese long-horned beetle and European spruce
bark beetle.
Directive D-98-08
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