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Questionnaire (JFSQ) definitions and classification, and to refer to the 7th
edition of the General Nomenclature of Tropical Wood (ATIBT, 2016). The
updated classification was expected to take into account not only products
included in the JFSQ but also other wood and paper products that had not
been covered by the JFSQ yet (e.g. railway sleepers, densified wood, cork, etc.).
In the first stage, the revision of the FPC&D (FAO & UNECE, 1981) was
done in order to evaluate outdated wood and paper products included in the
classification and missing new products. HS 2012 and HS 2017, producers’ and
associations’ information materials as well as technical publications (e.g. Forest
Products Annual Market Revue) were used as source of information on new
wood and paper products. Based on this revision, it was decided to propose a
completely new structure and coding system in comparison with the current
FPC&D (FAO & UNECE, 1981)

3. Results
The classification is designed to cover the whole spectrum of primary and
secondary wood and paper products. It encompasses not only more
commonly produced and traded wood and paper products for which FAO
collects statistics on a regular basis, but it also covers new wood-based
products which appeared during the last years. Included is wood taken from
forests or from trees outside the forest, bark and cork; charcoal; wood and
wood-based materials resulting from the first processing of the wood available
from forest operations (including sawnwood, railway sleepers, veneer sheets,
wood pulp and wood residues); and materials resulting from further
processing of some of these materials (e.g. woodbased panels, paper and
paperboard); recovered paper and recoverable wood products. In line with
JFSQ structure, the previous classification was also extended for secondary
wood and paper products for which trade statistics are regularly collected.
The classification does not cover manufactured articles of wood and paper
and also does not attempt to cover non-wood forest products such as small
ornamental trees cut for special purposes; nuts, berries, seeds, or other parts
of plants gathered in forest areas; gums, balsams, lacs, etc.; wood derivatives
such as turpentine, tall oil, sulphite dye and other chemicals, for which a
separate publication was prepared and published by FAO (Sorrenti, 2017).
Forestry operations and services are also not taken into account. Non-wood
materials are partially included in the new classification, namely in the group
panels where other ligno-cellulosic materials are taken into account and in the
group pulp which contains pulp made from non-wood fibrous vegetable
materials as well as waste paper. The reason for inclusion of these products
was, that they have the same use as same material made from wood and may
be produced in conjunction with, wood or wood-based materials.

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