On August 6, 2015, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) added twenty (20) wood products, such as casks, barrels, barrelheads, tableware and kitchenware to APHIS’ Schedule of Enforcement for the Lacey Act Plant and Plant Product Declaration requirement.
What’s New?
The list of products added with the August 6th enforcement date is as follows:
Chapter 44: Wood and articles of wood.
4416.00.3010–new casks, barrels, and parts of wood
4416.00.3020–used assembled casks of wood
4416.00.3030–used unassembled casks of wood
4416.00.6010–new barrel staves of wood
4416.00.6020–new barrel hoops of softwood
4416.00.6030–new tight barrelheads of wood
4416.00.6040–used barrels staves of softwood
4416.00.6050–used hoops, tight barrelheads of softwood
4416.00.9020–new other casks, barrels, wood
4416.00.9040–used other cooper goods, wood
Chapter 82: Tools, implements, cutlery, spoons and forks, of base metal.
8211.92.6000–hunting knives with wood handles
8215.99.2400–table barbeque forks with wood handles
Chapter 94: Furniture.
9401.61.2010–upholstered teak chair, household
9401.61.2030–upholstered teak chairs, other
9401.90.1500–parts of bent-wood seats
9403.30.4000–bent-wood office furniture
9403.40.4000–bent-wood kitchen furniture
9403.50.4000–bent-wood bedroom furniture
9403.60.4000–other bent-wood furniture
Chapter 96: Miscellaneous manufactured articles.
9614.00.2100–rough wood blocks for smoking pipe manufacture
Lacey Act declarations must include the scientific name of the plant, value of the importation, quantity of the plant, and name of the country from where the plant was harvested. For paper and paperboard products containing recycled content, the declaration also must include the average percent of recycled content without regard for species or country of harvest.
Additional Lacey Act information, including the full list of covered commodities, is available on the APHIS web page.
Questions about this regulatory update may be directed to Livingston’s U.S. Regulatory Affairs group.