
CBP Imposes New Wood Packing Material (WPM) Requirements
On September 26, 2017, U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued a trade notice, regarding issuance of penalties as a consequence of Wood Packaging Material Violations (WPM). Effective November 1, 2017, responsible parties with a documented WPM violation may be issued a penalty under Title 19 United States Code (USC) § 1595a(b) or under 19 USC § 1592. This is a change from the previous published threshold of 5 violations. There will be no yearly reset for calculating repeat v