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“” Lacey Act “the scope of coverage related to plants, all of the wooden furniture entering the United States have to provide ‘legal’ timber certificate of origin.” Yesterday, the reporter from the South China Sea, Inspection and Quarantine Bureau was informed that this year, April 1 date, the United States Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Quarantine Bureau to amend the Wild Animal Protection Law (LaceyAct, referred to as “Lacey Act,” hereinafter referred to as Act) coverage will be extended to all wood furniture.

     The bill requires that the importer in each shipping when importing plants or forest products and species sources of raw materials required to provide a basic declaration, including the selection of timber species of Latin names, cutting the number of countries and other information. Inspection and Quarantine Bureau official said the South China Sea, all the wooden furniture products entering the United States must be issued by the “legal” timber origin. “If the product source of raw material is defined as illegal, the United States will have the right products confiscated.”

    Reminder: Enterprise should be prepared to “four ready”

    Inspection and quarantine departments to remind the relevant export enterprises, in order to avoid the export of the affected enterprises should be prepared to “four prepared.”

     1, in the purchase of raw materials should be to choose the conditions of the importing country access products, and ask for the relevant proof of purchase materials.

     Second, should be to minimize the procurement in Indonesia, Russia and other countries by the United States focused surveillance of timber; and pay attention to collecting various links from the felling of the relevant certificates to ensure that every link on the chain have a legal document; to give priority to the supply of the United States or Europe Timber suppliers, or directly from Canada, the U.S. timber imports.

     Third, we should strengthen communication and contact with the U.S. customers, from customers learn more about the “Lacey Act” of information, the bill’s requirement to achieve early control, early preparation, early response, in order to seize the opportunities in the export trade, to avoid trade risks.

     Fourth, enterprises should understand, “Lacey Act” amendment to the content and import declaration requirements of state law enforcement standards such as the U.S. have first-hand information and familiarize themselves with “plant and product declaration” and to complete the requirements to minimize the resulting losses.