2. Notwithstanding any legislative provision inconsistent herewith, all wood derived from the public domain of Québec, whatever be the nature of the forest concession on which the right to cut the same is based, must be completely processed in Québec.
Wood is completely processed within the meaning of this act when it has undergone all the treatments and processes of manufacture and has passed through all the phases of transformation necessary to render it suitable for the use to which it is intended finally to be put, in such manner that the products thereof have acquired the definitive form in which the merchandise is to be delivered to the consumer.