FLEGT license and customs codes

The FLEGT license is required for the following customs codes:

• customs code: 4403 Wood in the rough, whether or not stripped of bark or sapwood, or roughly squared.
• Customs code: 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 or the like; chipwood and the like.
• Customs code: 4406 Railway or tramway sleepers (cross-ties) of wood.
• Customs code: 4407 Wood sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or end-jointed, of a thickness exceeding 6 mm.
• Customs code: 4408 Sheets for veneering (including those obtained by slicing laminated wood), for plywood or for similar laminated wood and other wood, sawn lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded, spliced or end-jointed, of a thickness not exceeding 6 mm.
• Customs code: 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
• Customs code 4412 Plywood, veneered panels and similar laminated wood.
• Customs code 4418 Builders’ joinery and carpentry of wood, including cellular wood panels, assembled flooring panels, shingles and shakes

The FLEGT license system (for goods made in/originating in Guyana) is an important area of trade compliance which is encompassed in the AEO management.

The principles are: a) sustainable forest management; b) public awareness, involvement and participation in environmental issues; c) role of women in environmental management and development; d) role of indigenous peoples and their communities and other local communities in environmental management and development.