944.021.1

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# EAER Ordinance on the Declaration for Timber and Timber Products

of 7 June 2010 (Status as of 1 October 2022)

The Federal Department of Economic Affairs Education and Research (EAER[^1]),

based on Articles 1 paragraph 2 and 2 paragraph 2 the Ordinance of 4 June 2010[^2]on the Declaration for Timber and Timber Products,

ordains:

##### **Art. 1** Timber and timber products subject to declaration {#art_1 omnilex-key=ch-fedlex--944.021.1--1}
The duty to declare applies to timber and timber products specified in the Annex.

##### **Art. 2** Reference system for the declaration of timber species {#art_2 omnilex-key=ch-fedlex--944.021.1--2}
The reference system for the declaration of the timber species comprises:
a. the commercial timber list of the Swiss Timber Trade Centre[^3]; and
b. Standard SN EN 13556:2003[^4].

##### **Art. 3** Commencement {#art_3 omnilex-key=ch-fedlex--944.021.1--3}
This Ordinance comes into force on 1 October 2010.

(Art. 1)
### Timber and Timber Products subject to Declaration {#annex_u1/lvl_u1 omnilex-key=ch-fedlex--944.021.1--annex-1}
| Customs Tariff Number | Product designation | |
| --- | --- | --- |
| | Fuel wood, in logs, in billets, in twigs, in faggots or in similar forms: | |
| 4401.1100 | of coniferous wood | |
| 4401.1200 | of non-coniferous wood | |
| | Wood in chips or particles: | |
| 4401.2100 | of coniferous wood | |
| 4401.2200 | of non-coniferous wood | |
| 4402 | Wood charcoal (including shell or nut charcoal), whether or not agglomerated | |
| 4403 | Wood in the rough, whether or not stripped of bark or sapwood, or roughly cut at two or four sides | |
| 4404 | 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, suitable for the manufacture of walking sticks, umbrellas, tool handles and the like, chipwood, woodstrips, woodbands and the like | |
| 4406 | Railway or tramway sleepers of wood, and the like | |
| 4407 | Wood sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or end-jointed, of a thickness exceeding 6mm. | |
| 4409 | Wood (including 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 | |
| 4414 | Wooden frames for paintings, photographs , mirrors or similar objects, made of solid wood | |
| 4416 | Casks, barrels, vats, tubs and other coopers’ products and parts thereof, made of solid wood | |
| 4418.6000 | Posts and beams made of solid wood, with the exception of<br>Nos 4418.81– 4418.89 | |
| 4418.5000 | Shingles and shakes | |
| 9401.6900 | Seats with main components made of solid wood | |
| 9403.3000 9403.4000 9403.5000 9403.6000 | other furniture with main components made of solid wood | |

[^1]: The name of this administrative unit was amended in application of Art. 16 para. 3 of the Publications Ordinance of 17 Nov. 2004 (AS  **2004**  4937) on 1 Jan. 2013. The amendment has been made throughout the text.
[^2]: SR  **944.021**
[^3]: The list may be inspected under: www.konsum.admin.ch
[^4]: The text of this standard can be consulted free of charge and obtained against payment from the Swiss Association for Standardization (SNV), Sulzerallee 70, 8404 Winterthur.