The following is provided by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.
This is to inform exporters that the US Custom and Border Protection (CBP) will cease their suspension of the ISPM 15 Hyphen requirement on December 31st 2025.
Starting January 1st 2026, all wood packaging material coming to the USA, new or recycled, will need to have the hyphen between the 2 letter ISO country code and the digits number identifying the facility that produced the wood packaging material (e.g., XX-00000). Regulatory actions on the missing hyphen will resume starting January 1st along with all other ISPM 15 provisions that remained in effect.
This measure does not affect the exemption related to ISPM 15 requirements between Canada and US for wood packaging.
Please contact you local CFIA office for any questions.