Importation of Solid Wood Packing Material, Draft Environmental Impact Statement—October 2002
This document originally appeared at: http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ppd/es/swpm.html
Date Modified: 2002-11-15
Document Highlights
- “The regulation does not restrict packing materials made of synthetic or highly processed wood materials (e.g., plywood, oriented strand board, particle board, corrugated paperboard, plastic and resin composites).”
- “Also, although some substitute packing materials show great promise (i.e., corrugated pallets), there may be limitations on their use and they may require a phase-in period to allow the industry to adapt these materials to the shipping processes.”
- “Corrugated pallets constitute about 2 percent of the current market and could be expanded to as much as 10 percent in the foreseeable future.”
- “Prohibition of SWPM would achieve the greatest possible reduction in risk from the introduction of pests and pathogens associated with SWPM—if no SWPM were imported, there could not be any harmful organisms imported with it. This alternative also would achieve the greatest reduction of adverse environmental consequences from the use of control methods (chemical and/or physical).”
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