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 (EAER¹),

based on Articles 1 paragraph 2 and 2 paragraph 2 the Ordinance of 4 June 2010²on the Declaration for Timber and Timber Products,

ordains:

Art. 1 Timber and timber products subject to declaration

The duty to declare applies to timber and timber products specified in the Annex.

Art. 2 Reference system for the declaration of timber species

The reference system for the declaration of the timber species comprises:

the commercial timber list of the Swiss Timber Trade Centre³; and
Standard SN EN 13556:2003⁴.

Art. 3 Commencement

This Ordinance comes into force on 1 October 2010.

(Art. 1)

Timber and Timber Products subject to Declaration

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 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

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. ↩
SR 944.021 ↩
The list may be inspected under: www.konsum.admin.ch ↩
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. ↩

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