If you are an exporter, the following questions should be reviewed immediately to determine if the rapidly approaching proposed changes to the export of Solid Wood Packaging will apply to your company.      
     
  v    Do you utilize wooden pallets, boxes, crates, containers or specialty crating while exporting your products outside of the USA or Canada?      
  v    Do you have customers that you know ship your products, using your packaging, offshore from USA or Canadian Ports?      
  v    Do you have customers that have asked you to meet the requirements to transport pallets, boxes, crates or containers when exporting merchandise to Europe, South America, Asia or Australia/New Zealand?      
     
 

If you answered yes to any of these questions, you should know that most countries in the world are expected to impose emergency phytosanitary regulations on solid coniferous wood packing materials from North America. This expected emergency regulation follows very closely the proposed adoption of the new International Standard for Solid Wood Packing Material. (Note that this does not apply to export packaging between The USA and Canada.)

      
  Under the same standard, hardwood packaging must also be kiln dried or chemically impregnated using a preservative and it must also be free of bark, insect holes, living insects and nematodes.  If you do not instruct your export packagerof the final destination of your product, you take a gamble dispatching product off-shore without the correct documentation.  If your export packager does not follow the new International Standard for Solid Wood Packing Material, your product, on landing, could be destroyed, or cross-docked forcing it to adhere to the new regulation. You or your customer will then be sent a large invoice from the country of import for services rendered, due to non-compliance to the new International Standard for Solid Wood Packing Materials. How can you protect yourself and your customers? Demand that your export packager:      
     
  v    Guarantees that all export wood packaging contains no bark, live insects, traces of insects or insect holes found on any piece of solid wood packaging utilized.      
  v    Guarantees that your export packager uses KD-HT 56-30 quality grade material, or uses chemical preservative impregnation/pressure treated lumber. (The impregnating agent must be identified on your invoice).      
  v    Guarantees that as your export packager, he is able to trace or track the KD-HT material to origin, and be ready to defend with a substantiated paper trail.      
  v    Guarantees that as your export packager, he exercises overkill when demonstrating his adherence to the imposed International Standard for Solid Wood Packing Material. On delivery of your export packaging, a document should be incorporated that meets all international requirements. This will in itself, prove to your customer, customs broker and country of import that all components of the International Standard for Sold Wood Packing Material have been met.      
     
  For interested exporters, Ockerlund Industries, Inc. will provide export packaging which will meet or exceed to the new International Standard for Solid Wood Packing Material.      
   
 
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