Brazil Ministry of Agriculture, through the Normative Instruction Nบ. 32 of 09/23/2015 will treat as
mandatory the information about wooden package material. The instruction will come into effect on
February 1st, 2016 (B/L date) and will be applied to export, import, transshipment and in transit
cargos (passage) through Brazil.
The details about the packaging will be required for all cargos, informing the existence or not of wood,
and it must be shown on BL as follows:
1. Wooden Package Material: Treated and Certificated; (treated material and/or fumigated with
certification);
2. Wooden Package Material: Processed; (processed material);
3. Wooden Package Material: Not treated and Not Certificated (not treated material and/or fumigated
with certification).
If shipment has not wooden package, must be informed on BL: “no wooden package”