ISPM 15 Wood Packaging — Practical Exporter Guide
The IPPC standard for pallets, crates and dunnage: debarked wood, an approved treatment and the mark What ISPM 15 is. ISPM 15, "Regulation of wood packaging material in international trade", is a standard of the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC), first adopted in 2002; the current text was adopted in 2018. It sets the measures importing countries accept for packaging made of raw wood: debarked wood, one approved treatment, and the official mark. It covers pallets, crates, boxes, packing cases, cable drums, reels and dunnage. A correctly marked item needs no phytosanitary certificate for the packaging itself. The four approved treatments (Annex 1). What is exempt. The mark, repairs and India's accreditation. The mark (Annex 2) is the IPPC symbol with the two-letter country code, the code of the producer or treatment provider, and the treatment code. It must be legible, durable and visible, preferably on two opposite sides, and not hand-drawn; red and orange are to be avoided. A marked unit that is not repaired needs no further treatment during its service life. A repaired unit must use treated wood, with each new piece marked. Dunnage must carry the mark too. In India…
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