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Bringing wood into the USA?
My parents live in the UK and are coming for a visit (we live in the USA) and my father plans to make a model wooden windmill with my children. As we don't have all the tools he does he has made the details like doors window frames and the axle mechanism for the sails in his workshop and plans to bring them with him.
They read somewhere that wood may be a problem to bring into the country. I have searched and searched but cannot find any specific rules concerning this. The wood is ply board, kiln dried and pressure treated softwood, but as it is cut and modeled into doll house sized pieces it will have no stamps on it.
Does anyone know what the specific rules are? I looked on the FDA, and the US customs and excise sites (cbp) but have been unable to specifics
4 Answers
- ?Lv 61 decade agoFavorite Answer
Yes, from what you described, you can bring those pieces into the US, but you'll need to declare them so the items can be inspected by Customs.
- StephenWeinsteinLv 71 decade ago
The problems are with packaging, timber, logs, and green wood that can be carrying beetles, insects, diseases, etc. Manufactured goods are much less strictly controlled. Since these are tiny pieces cut into the shapes of doors, etc., but much smaller, they will appear to be children's toys and the rules may not be enforced. To be on the safe side, bring some alcohol. I once saw a video of a person telling a passenger with an empty wooden bottle that it was not allowed to enter the country empty, but would be allowed if it was filled with alcohol (to kill anything that might be living in the wood), and then pouring alcohol from another (glass?) bottle she had into the wooden bottle for her, so that she could take it into the country. Dipping the pieces of wood in alcohol may satisfy the inspector. (Make sure the alcohol evaporates before the children put the wood in their mouths. Heat it if necessary.)
- Anonymous5 years ago
What a strange question from a reiki chick! Don't you have something interesting you want to bring to Canada? And not some arsonist's tool? Wood chips?! Please!
