Philippines #10665 (v.1)

Base data

Notified in
Version validity
20/02/2025 - present
Current active version v.1
Reporting member
Philippines
In force from
End date
In force
General description
Export Prohibition of round logs, poles and piles including log core and flitches/railroad ties produced from naturally grown trees both from the forest lands and private lands; and

Lumber, boules or any other semi-finished products produced from premium hardwood and prohibited species.

Premium Hardwood and Prohibited Species
National legal basis
Executive Order No. 23 "Moratorium on the cutting and harvesting of Timber in the natural and residual forests") 1 February 2011)

DAO No. 1988-33 Regulations Governing the Exportation of Lumber Plantation Logs" (6 May 1988)

DAO No. 78 S. 1987 "Interim Guidelines on the cutting/gathering of Narra and Other Premium Hardwood Species" (28 December 1987)
Administrative mechanism
Responsible entities
HS version
HS 2022
Referenced WTO document symbol

Meta data

WTO justifications

XX:(b) - (b) necessary to protect human, animal or plant life or health;

GATT 1994 (GATT 1947 provisions)

Reported as: GATT XX (General Exceptions) (b) necessary to protect human, animal or plant life or health;
Non-WTO commitments
Affected partners
Non-affected partners

Measures

Reported restrictions
P-X
Symbol
P-X

Tariff lines

4403
44.03
Wood in the rough, whether or not stripped of bark or sapwood, or roughly squared.
4407
44.07
Wood sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or end-jointed, of...