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UNITED NATIONS ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS

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Classification and definitions of forest product~

SUPPLEMENT 14 TO VOLUME XXXIV OF THE " TIMBER BULLETIN FOR EUROPE"

Geneva, April 1982

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Table of contents

Preface

1

Notes on the classification of forest products

4

Classification of forest products

7

Group 1

~ood in the rough

7

Group 2

Residues of wood processing;

recoverable wood products

12

Group 3

Wood chips and particles

16

Grouo 4

wood simply worked or processed

18

Group 5

wood sawn lengthwise: veneer sheets

21

Group 6

Wood-based panels (including similar oanels

from other ligna-cellulosic materials)

24

Group 7

Pulp of wood or other ligna-cellulosic materials

and pulp of waste paper

27

Group 8

Paper and paperboard

29

Group 9

waste paper

34

Group 10

Raw, semi-processed and worked cork

35

Definitions

36

Annex to the ~efinitions: use classification of wood raw material

54

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- 1PREFACE

Intr01uction

In work on forest products statistics, industry and trade statistics, and in the development of forestry and industry statistical systems, a system of classification and definitions is an essential component. In view of the interaction between different systems - between trade and produc t Lon for example and between different countries and regions - it has been found desirable that a comprehensive classification and set of definitions should be available. This should provide a reference for the development of new statistical systems and a source of clarification of the relationships between existing systems. The classification and definitions presented here are designed to 9rovide 'a broad reference which will be useful in relation to forestry and forest industry production, industry capacity and trade. They do not attempt to lay down strict specifications such as might be found in national standards or in tra1e and tariff regulations, but they do aim to draw attention to the characteristics which differentiate between items that are of practical importance in the different areas of the sector's activities, and to indicate aggregate and subdivisions of products and materials that have practical significance.

Classification and Definitions of Forest Products (Advance version) was published as Supplement 6 to Volume XXV of the Timber Bulletin for Burope in Geneva in 1973. This was the result of work of the Joint FAO/ECE Working Party on Forest Economics and Statistics.

In 1979 this Working Party recommended that the classification should be brought up to date to take account of revisions of the Standard International Trade Classification, the work of the Customs Cooperation ~ouncil on a harmonized commodity description and coding system, and to take account of changes in technology, industry and trade practice and the appearance of new products. It was also recommended that this revision should ensure that the needs of all regions of the world are accommodated.

The Fl\.O Forestry Department in Rome and the .Joint FAO/BCE Agriculture and Timber Division in Geneva carried out the revision with the assistance of consultants in a number of develojJing countries and with the advice of the Fl\.O Committee on '>lood-Based Panel Products and the Fl\.O l\.dvisory Committee on Pulp and Paper. The draft was circulated to Forest Services, to members of the two committees, to ISO and to other expert bod i.e s , before consideration by an ad hoc meeting in March 1981 and the thirteenth session of the Joint Fl\.O/BCE Working Party on Forest Economics and Statistics in June 1981.

FAO is pUblishing an Bnglish/French/Spanish/Arabic edition of the classification and definitions, which also includes complete texts of the relevant sections of the other international c Lass i f i c a t Lons to which cross-references are supplied.

Criteria of classification

One basic purpose of the classification system for f0rest products is to improve comparability of statistics of different types collected from a wide range of sources.

In addition, it is envisaged as providing:

( a)

. a basIs,.' for statistical collection procedures involving such data as

production, stocks, international trade and production capacity;

(b)

a framework for compilation and presentation of statistics;

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- 2(c) aggregates and elements for analyses such as those of production relation-

ships, trade patterns, utilization of materials, and commodity balances;

(d) a set of elements (or building blocks) suitable for rearrangement o~ expansion for special studies .or for special purpose classification systems;

(e) a basis for design of computer programmes for processing, storage, retrieval and analytical manipulation of data on forest products.

Attention is also drawn to the need for general classification of forest

products to assist in world-wide activities in the forest and forest products sector.

Considerations incorporated in the formulation of subdivisions in the existing classification include:

- chief'component material - stage of manufacture - technology applied in production - purpose or intended use.

So far as possible, each group is confined to only one stage of manufacture i.e.

- crude materials - products of first processing - products of further processing.

An important consideration in the present reV1Slon is the harmonization with the major international classification. Shown with the classification is the cross reference to major international classification systems, namely;

UN Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activity - ISIC

UN Classification by Broad Economic Categories

- BEC

UN Standard International Trade Classification

- SITC Rev.2

Customs Cooperation Council Nomenclature for the

Classification of Goods in Customs Tariffs

- CCCN

Customs Cooperation Council Harmonized Commodity Description

and Coding Systems l!

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It should be noted that the headings of the present classification do not coincide exactly with those of any of the above-mentioned classifications. The cross-references are therefore indications of some degree of coincidence between the two classifications, not of a one-to-one correspondence.

Coding,

The classification is supported by a unique numer ical reference to each element and aggregate. The decimal ordering initially adopted relates consistently to the characteristics used to identify subdivisions, namely stage of manufacture, chief component mater~l, technology applied and intended use. The order in which these characteristics are treated is not uniform throughout the system. The coding system appears capable of conversion to one which would simplify aggregation across characteristics and facilitate the introduction of finer subdivision where this was required for a particular application.

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1/ provisional texts of the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System as ;greed at the 25th session of the Harmonized system Committee of the Customs Co-operation Council, 10 July 1981.

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