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Sending timber to NZ

Post by nkforster » Mon Jun 01, 2015 3:35 am

A pal of mine has asked me to send him some spruce to NZ. But from what I can gather this isn't a straight forward process, as NZ is rather cautious about importation of timber. Can anyone enlighten me?

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Post by Nick » Mon Jun 01, 2015 8:24 am

Not as much of a hassle as you've been led to believe Nigel. I've bought in thousands of dollars worth of guitar woods over the years including spruce. It seems, as long as you declare on the customs form that it is 'guitar woods' or 'instrument parts' there isn't too much of a problem. They may open the package at the border and inspect it for bugs or borer but if the timber has had even rough sawing carried out and no infestations of bugs they reseal it and let it go. They don't like anything with bark still on it or timber 'in the raw'. I've only ever been pulled up for one shipment of spruce which was rough billet stuff and one piece had some borer or insect damage along one edge. I could either let them destroy the parcel ( they were worried about cross contamination with the other pieces) or, as I ended up doing, paid an extra $35 I think it was, to have the lot heat treated to kill off any bugs.
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Post by kiwigeo » Mon Jun 01, 2015 8:46 am

If you want to get the wood through then mark the following on the box:

"Wood to be turned into exceptional cricket bats to be used by the Black Caps in the next test against Australia"
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Post by Allen » Mon Jun 01, 2015 2:38 pm

kiwigeo wrote:If you want to get the wood through then mark the following on the box:

"Wood to be turned into exceptional cricket bats to be used by the Black Caps in the next test against Australia"
:lol: That would certainly do it.
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Re: Sending timber to NZ

Post by nkforster » Tue Jun 02, 2015 3:13 pm

Thanks chaps. Big help.

Mind the way NZ are batting just now, I don't think they need much help. They turned the Headingly test into a 20/20!

Do you think we could convince the NZ government that the best way to treat wood on import is the torrification process? At $35 a batch that could work out pretty cost effective.....

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Post by kiwigeo » Tue Jun 02, 2015 3:22 pm

nkforster wrote:Thanks chaps. Big help.

Mind the way NZ are batting just now, I don't think they need much help. They turned the Headingly test into a 20/20!
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Re: Sending timber to NZ

Post by woodrat » Tue Jun 02, 2015 6:37 pm

kiwigeo wrote:
nkforster wrote:Thanks chaps. Big help.

Mind the way NZ are batting just now, I don't think they need much help. They turned the Headingly test into a 20/20!
Beating the Poms doesn't matter...beating the Aussies does.
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