G/TBT/N/PHL/256  
17 June 2021  
(21-4962) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  PHILIPPINES   
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   
Forest Management Bureau  
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers , email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be ind icated if different from above:   
Marcial C. Amaro, Jr., CESO III  
Assistant Secretary for Policy, Planning, and Foreign -Assisted and Special Projects 
Director  
Forest Management Bureau  
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES  
Email: fmb@denr.gov.ph ; ohea.denr@gmail.com  
www.forestry.denr.gov.ph   
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 5.7.1 [   ], other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Fuel wood, 
in logs, billets, twigs, faggots or similar forms; wood in chips or particles; sawdust and 
wood waste and scrap, whether or not agglomerated in logs, briquettes, pellets or similar 
forms (HS 4401); Wood charcoal, incl. shell or nut charcoal, whether or not agglomerated 
(excl. wood charcoal used as a medicament, charcoal mixed with incense, activ ated 
charcoal and charcoal in the form of crayons) (HS 4402); Wood in the rough, whether or 
not stripped of bark or sapwood, or roughly squared (excl. rough -cut wood for walking 
sticks, umbrellas, tool shafts and the like; wood in the form of railway sleep ers; wood cut 
into boards or beams, etc.) (HS 4403); Hoopwood; split poles; piles, pickets and stakes 
of wood, pointed but not sawn lengthwise; wooden sticks, roughly trimmed but not 
turned, bent or otherwise worked, for the manufacture of walking sticks, umbrellas, tool 
handles or the like; chipwood, wooden slats and strips and the like (excl. hoopwood cut 
to length and chamfered; brush surrounds and shoe trees) (HS 4404); Wood wool; wood 
flour "wood powder able to pass through a fine", 0,63 mm mesh, sieve  with a residue of 
<= 8% by weight (HS 4405); Railway or tramway sleepers "cross -ties" of wood (HS 
4406); Wood sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded 
or end -jointed, of a thickness of > 6 mm (HS 4407); Sheets for veneer ing, incl. those 
obtained by slicing laminated wood, for plywood or for other similar laminated wood and 
other wood, sawn lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded, spliced or 
end-jointed, of a thickness of <= 6 mm (HS 4408); Wood, incl. strips and friezes for 
parquet flooring, not assembled, continuously shaped "tongued, grooved, rebated, 
chamfered, V -jointed beaded, moulded, rounded or the like" along any of its edges, ends 
or faces, whether or not planed, sanded or end -jointed (HS 4409) ; Particle board, oriented 
strand board "OSB" and similar board "e.g. waferboard" of wood or other ligneous 
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  (excl. fibreboard, veneered particle board, cellular wood pan els and board of ligneous 
materials agglomerated with cement, plaster or other mineral bonding agents) (HS 
4410); Fibreboard of wood or other ligneous materials, whether or not agglomerated with 
resins or other organic bonding agents (excl. particle board,  whether or not bonded with 
one or more sheets of fibreboard; laminated wood with a layer of plywood; composite 
panels with outer layers of fibreboard; paperboard; furniture components identifiable as 
such) (HS 4411); Plywood, veneered panel and similar la minated wood (excl. sheets of 
compressed wood, cellular wood panels, parquet panels or sheets, inlaid wood and sheets 
identifiable as furniture components) (HS 4412); Metallised wood and other densified 
wood in blocks, plates, strips or profile shapes (HS 4413); Mechanical wood pulp, not 
chemically treated (HS 4701); Chemical wood pulp, dissolving grades (HS 4702); 
Chemical wood pulp, soda or sulphate (excl. dissolving grades) (HS 4703); Chemical wood 
pulp, sulphite (excl. dissolving grades) (HS 4704); Wood  pulp obtained by a combination 
of mechanical and chemical pulping processes (HS 4705); WOOD TECHNOLOGY (ICS 79)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  DENR DAO 
2021-06 "Revised Regulations Governing the Entry and Disposition of Imported Wood 
Products" (9 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  The general objective of this Order is to rationalize the 
requirements and procedures of the importation of wood products into the country.  
7. Objective and rationale, includin g the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Protection of animal or plant life or health  
8. Relevant documents:   
• Presidential Decree No. 705, series of 1975  
• Presidential Decree No. 1433, s. 1978  
• Executive Order No. 192 dated June 10, 1987  
• Republic Act No. 9147  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  Signed by the DENR Secretary Roy A. Cimatu , on April 21, 
2021 and was published by The Manila Times and acknowledged by the U.P. Law Center 
on May 4, 2021.  
Proposed date of entry into force:  19 May 2021  
10. Final date for comments:  Not applicable.  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
NEIL P. CATAJAY  
Director  
Bureau of Philippine Standards  
Department of Trade and Industry  
3F Trade and Industry Building  
361 Sen. Gil Puy at Avenue  
Makati City  
Philippines  
1200  
(632) 751 4700; (632) 7913128  
bps@dti.gov.ph  
http://www.bps.dti.gov.ph  
Head of Organization  
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