Crapwood Oil Export Procedure in Amazonas State

• Autor(a) principal: Mendonça, A. P.
• Data de Publicação: 2006
• Outros Autores: Ferraz, I. D. K.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Fitos
• Texto Completo: https://revistafitos.far.fiocruz.br/index.php/revista-fitos/article/view/51
• topic: Carapa guianesis Aubl.; Carapa procera D.C.; crapwood oil export; Amazonas; Carapa guianesis Aubl; Carapa procera D.C.; exportação de óleo andiroba; Amazonas

Crapwood oil, a non-timber product of great economical potential, is extracted in the Amazonian hinterlands from Carapa procera D.C. and Carapa guianensis Aubl seeds, by traditional methods or the use of press. In the regional market the oils and their byproducts are marketed in drugstores, make-up shops and fairs. In addition, they show to be increasingly demanded to be imported by cosmetic and phytotherapic industries. This study aims to assess the crapwood oil export procedures in the State of Amazonas by making a survey of all the documents needed by the official departments. The oil export can de performed by anyone either physical or juridical as long as they present a technical register of potential pollutant or natural resource use activities, exporter register and Forest product transporting authorisation to IBAMA; the invoice of the product and the "Bill of Loading" to the Federal Tax; exporter register and export dispatch declaration to the Foreign Trade System and a phytosanitary certificate of the oil to the Minnistry of Agriculture. The exporting procedure is probably hard to be done by small producers, assotiations and cooperatives in the Amazonian hinterland due to the lack of information concerning the procedures to be followed in the official departments as well as to the inadequate infrastructure in the Townships themselves.