{"id":1418,"date":"2017-01-22T01:14:52","date_gmt":"2017-01-22T01:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cargocentric.com\/cc\/?p=1418"},"modified":"2022-09-22T17:30:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T17:30:58","slug":"lacey-act-declarations-and-importing-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cargocentric.com\/lacey-act-declarations-and-importing-wood\/","title":{"rendered":"Lacey Act Declarations and Importing Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Importing products containing wood might require a Lacey Act declaration.<\/strong> \u00a0This helps US Customs and USDA determine if the importer is using illegally sourced wood products.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To determine if your product requires a Lacey Act declaration:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Determine the HTS classification of your product<\/li>\n<li>If the HTS classifications or subheadings are listed in this PDF (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aphis.usda.gov\/aphis\/ourfocus\/planthealth\/import-information\/lacey-act\/implementaton-schedule\">click here<\/a>), Lacey Act declaration is applicable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>If Lacey Act declaration is required, the importer will need to fill out the following form:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aphis.usda.gov\/library\/forms\/pdf\/ppq505.pdf\">Click here<\/a>.\u00a0Fill out as much as possible, but most importantly:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Box 14 &#8211; Both Genus and Species<\/li>\n<li>Phone #, signature, print name, and date<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cargocentric.com\/about\/contact\/\">Contact us<\/a>\u00a0or <a href=\"https:\/\/cargocentric.com\/cc\/sign-up\/\">sign up<\/a> to get started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Importing products containing wood might require a Lacey Act declaration. \u00a0This helps US Customs and USDA determine if the importer is using illegally sourced wood products. To determine if your product requires a Lacey Act declaration: Determine the HTS classification of your product If the HTS classifications or subheadings are listed in this PDF&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cargocentric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cargocentric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cargocentric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cargocentric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cargocentric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cargocentric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3118,"href":"https:\/\/cargocentric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions\/3118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cargocentric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cargocentric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cargocentric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cargocentric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}