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Get help to classify various types of wood for import and export.
Find out how to import timber and wood material, including the documents, identity checks and plant health inspections required.
Find out about the Woods into Management – Timber in Construction Innovation Fund and how you can compete for funding to help increase and facilitate the use of home-grown English wood and wood fibre in construction.
If you use, produce or supply wood packaging material (WPM) to move goods to or from the EU or the rest of the world, you must make sure it meets international standards.
The T6 exemption allows you to chip, shred, cut or pulverise waste wood and plant matter to make it easier to store and transport, or to convert it for use.
Planting the right tree, in the right place, can help diversify business income, offset emissions, and bring direct benefits to your land, crops, and livestock. Find out more in the collection of resources below.
Requirements for solid wood packaging used to import or export goods
How to export certain types of regulated wood, wood products and bark from Great Britain to the world.
Find out what you can do to prevent tree pests and diseases from establishing and spreading.
How to import plants, fruit, vegetables, cut flowers, trees, seeds and used agricultural machinery from non-EU countries to Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales).
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