Importation of Logs, Lumber, and Other Unmanufactured Wood Articles

Özet

We propose to amend our foreign quarantine regulations by adding a new ``Subpart--Logs, Lumber, and Other Unmanufactured Wood Articles'' to establish prohibitions and restrictions concerning imported unmanufactured wood articles. The new subpart would affect persons importing logs, lumber, bark chips, wood chips, certain wood packing materials, and other unmanufactured wood articles. The new subpart would not affect imports of manufactured wood products such as furniture. We also propose to change several existing foreign quarantine regulations that currently restrict importation of certain wood articles, to state that such articles would instead be regulated under the proposed new subpart. These changes appear necessary because there is increased interest in importing large volumes of unmanufactured wood articles into the United States, and prohibitions and restrictions appear necessary to eliminate any significant plant pest risk associated with importing these articles.