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SVLK / V-Legal: Timber Legality for Hardwood-Containing Charcoal

Kraft paper bags are filled and weighed to a target net weight on a platform scale, then closed for export distribution to importers and HORECA buyers. Weighing at the fill point is what keeps declared net weight consistent from bag to bag across a production run.

Because the blended grades contain hardwood, coconut BBQ charcoal is subject to Indonesia’s mandatory timber-legality system, SVLK (Sistem Verifikasi Legalitas Kayu). The export document that system issues — the V-Legal document — is recognised as a FLEGT licence for shipments into the EU and UK, evidencing that the wood was legally sourced.

Why It Applies, And To Whom

SVLK is not optional for timber-bearing products leaving Indonesia. It matters for buyers in the EU, UK, United States, Australia, Japan, and Korea, where legal-sourcing evidence is expected or required at import. In practice:

  • the blended grades (coconut + hardwood) carry the timber-legality obligation directly, and
  • the V-Legal document accompanies the export and underpins the legality leg of an EUDR due-diligence pack.

For Grade A (100% coconut shell), which contains no hardwood, confirm with your destination whether a V-Legal document is still expected for the customs line before booking.

⚠ Verify before publishing

Confirm the exact V-Legal coverage and the HS line it is issued against with an accredited LVLK (the licensing body) for your specific grade and destination.

Coconut shell BBQ charcoal briquettes are packed into inner cartons before those inners are loaded into a master carton. The inner-carton layer keeps briquette geometry intact and limits the fines generated when finished-goods stock is handled and moved.

Questions

Yes for the hardwood-containing grades. Because the blended grades contain hardwood, they fall under Indonesia’s mandatory SVLK timber-legality system, which issues the V-Legal export document.

It is the export document issued under SVLK that evidences legal timber sourcing. For shipments into the EU and UK it is recognised as a FLEGT licence.

Grade A contains no hardwood, so the timber-legality basis differs. Confirm with your destination and an accredited LVLK whether a V-Legal document is still expected on the customs line before booking.

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