TIN # 65868207 - New Treatment Available for Non-Compliant Wood Packing Material: Shredder-Hammermilling

U.S. Customs and Border Protection sent this bulletin at 08/08/2025 12:14 PM EDT

On July 25, 2025, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced that a new treatment recommendation, Shredder-Hammermill, has been added to the list of available treatments in their Treatment Manual to provide an emergency phytosanitary destruction method for dunnage, pallets, wood packaging material (WPM) and other non-compliant wood products.

The new treatment schedule describes a process of using a wood shredder and a hammermill grinder combination to provide for the mechanical destruction of possible pests associated with these non-compliant wood products. Both actions must be used in combination where shredding is followed by grinding in a hammermill as one treatment.

This option can be utilized if there is an APHIS-approved Shredder-Hammermill treatment facility within the port location. An approved APHIS compliance agreement must be in place for the secure disposal equipment to be authorized to treat/destroy violative WPM.

For more information, the USDA Stakeholder Announcement can be found here. Questions regarding this Trade Information Notice contact CBP APTL at aptlprocessres@cbp.dhs.gov.

Update your subscriptions, modify your password or e-mail address, or stop subscriptions at any time on your Subscriber Preferences Page. You will need to use your e-mail address to log in. If you have questions or problems with the subscription service, please contact subscriberhelp.govdelivery.com.

This service is provided to you at no charge by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Privacy Policy | GovDelivery is providing this information on behalf of U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and may not use the information for any other purposes.