Strengthen Wood Product Supply Chains Act of 2025

Summary

Creates new procedural protections and strict timelines for importers when shipments of fish, wildlife, or plants are detained under the Lacey Act. It requires prompt written notice of detention, deadlines for testing and agency action, options to transfer detained goods abroad, an administrative review process, and rules for judicial relief if the agency does not act within the prescribed timeframes. The changes require the Secretary (or authorized enforcement official) to release or issue a seizure within fixed periods (5 days for notice/release, 30 days for release/seizure), provide test results and replication details, allow importer-requested removal under conditions, and establish a 30-day administrative disposition clock with a statutory standard for court review.

• Requires written notice or release of detained fish, wildlife, or plant imports within 5 days.
• Notice must state reasons, expected length, and tests/inquiries to be conducted.
• Importers may request transfer of detained goods abroad within 10 days if they pay charges, post a removal bond, and transfer won't frustrate enforcement.
• Agency must provide test results and information needed to replicate tests to importers.
• Agency must release or formally seize detained merchandise within 30 days; failure to act is treated as seizure.
• Creates a 30-day administrative review/disposition clock for detained merchandise.
• Permits judicial review and requires courts to grant relief unless the agency shows by a preponderance of the evidence that no admissibility decision was possible for good cause.
• Applies specifically to imports of fish, wildlife, and plants; focuses on procedural protections and timelines.
• Does not appropriate funds or create new programs in the provided sections.