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If you're importing products in wooden crates, get ready for a Customs crackdown.(Management UPDATE: AN EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF INDUSTRY NEWS)
Logistics Management (Highlands Ranch, Co.), August, 2005
* If you're importing products in wooden crates, get ready for a Customs crackdown. Starting Sept. 16, U.S. Customs and Border Protection will begin enforcement of a new U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) regulation governing imports of wood packaging material. Issued by USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), the rule requires wood packaging, such as pallets, crates, boxes, and dunnage used to support or brace cargo, to be treated and marked.
Approved treatments include heating to a minimum wood-core temperature of 56 dog. C for at least 30 minutes, or fumigation with methyl bromide. Details are available at www.cbp.gov and www.aphis.usda.gov.
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