• Develop pest risk assessments. Continue to support 

 APHIS regulatoiy actions by preparing pest risk 

 assessments for unprocessed wood imports. Prepare 

 other risk assessments as appropriate, for example, 

 a risk assessment for shipping containers used in 

 international trade that could be a means of exotic 

 pest transfer. 



• Participate on APHIS's interagency advisory group to 

 develop general quarantine regidations for wood and wood 

 products. Support the APHIS effort to establish prohi- 

 bitions or restrictions on the importation of logs and 

 other unprocessed wood, hitherto unregulated. 



• Together with APHIS work with Canada and Mexico to 

 harmonize North American quarantine measures against 

 exotic forest pests. With APHIS, Forestiy Canada, 

 Agriculture Canada, and Sanidad Forestal (Mexico), 

 work to enstue that quarantine regulations of the 

 three countries are equivalent and provide adequate 

 protection from forest pests exotic to North America. 

 Through the Working Group on Forest Insects and 

 Diseases of the North American Forestiy Commission, 

 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United 

 Nations (FAO), assist Mexico to develop adequate 

 safeguards against exotic pests. 



International Cooperation in Forest 

 Health Protection 



GOAL 



Forest health is recognized as a problem requiring 

 international cooperation, common interests are 

 identified with other countries, and long-term rela- 

 tionships are developed to maintain and protect 

 forest health worldwide. 



RATIONALE 



Protecting and restoring forest health is a coinmon interest of all 

 nations and cooperation and exchanges are mutually beneficial. 

 International coalitions to address mutual problems in forest 

 health are forming. The threat of exotic forest pests to the 

 United States and, similarly, the threat forest pests native to the 

 United States pose for other countries, are of mutual concern. 



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