Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 08:03:04 -0500 From: "Mellard, David" <dam7@cdc.gov> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg3613$foo@default> Subject: RE: U.S. Importation Permits
I have an import permit for orchids. There's a place to identify the plants
you wish to import. You only have to give the genus name, not the species
name and you can list as many as you wish. Request all ports of entry.
David
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> From: Daigen [SMTP:daigen300@rocketmail.com]
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> Subject: U.S. Importation Permits
>
> Hello all,
>
> Have any of the U.S. subscribers to this list had experience with
> importation permits from the U.S. Department of Agriculture? I am
> interested in buying some CPs from foreign sources, but the
> application form
> (http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ppq/bats/permits/q37/plants.shtml) requires
> information so detailed (scientfic names, bulbs/plants/cuttings,
> country of origin, port of entry) that it seems the application will
> only be useful for a single or very limited set of transactions, and I
> will need to reapply every time I want to make a purchase. Is there
> any way to make a more general blanket application that can be used
> each time?
>
> Also, the regulations seem to say that a phytosanitary certificate is
> always required. Is this true in practice?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Roger Joyner
> daigen300@rocketmail.com
>
>
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