§ 318.82-2 Movement of regulated articles. (a) Plants, plant products, and other articles designated in § 318.82 may be moved from Guam into or through any other State, Territory, or District of the United States only if, in the case of articles other than soil, they meet the strictest plant quarantine requirements for similar articles offered for entry into such State, Territory, or District from Oceania or the Far East under Part 319 or 321 of this chapter, except requirements for permits, foreign inspection certificates, notices of arrival, and notices of shipment from port of arrival, and in the case of soil if it meets the requirements of § 330.300 of this chapter. If such similar articles cannot be imported into the particular State, Territory, or District from Oceania or the Far East under either Part 319 or 321 of this chapter, the interstate movement of the articles from Guam into or through such State, Territory or District shall be similarly prohibited. Plants, plant products, and other articles moved from Guam into or through any other State, Territory or District of the United States shall be subject to inspection at the port of first arrival in another part of the United States to determine whether they are free of plant pests and otherwise meet the requirements applicable to them under this subpart, and shall be subject to release, in accordance with § 330.105(a) of this chapter as if they were foreign arrivals. Such articles shall be released only if they meet all applicable requirements under this subpart. (b) A release may be issued orally by the inspector when inspection of small quantities of regulated articles is involved except that a release issued in specific cases pursuant to the proviso in § 318.82 shall be in writing. (c) The appropriate provisions of Part 352 of this chapter are hereby made applicable to the safeguarding of regulated articles from Guam temporarily in parts of the United States other than Guam, when landing therein is not intended or landing has been refused in accordance with this subpart. The movement of plant pests, means of conveyance, plants, plant products, and other products and arti CONDITIONS OF IMPORTATION AND ENTRY OF COTTON AND COVERS 319.8-2 Permit procedure. 319.8-3 Refusal and cancellation of permits. 319.8-4 Notice of arrival. 319.8-5 Marking of containers. 319.8-6 Cottonseed cake and cottonseed meal. 319.8-7 Processed lint, linters, and waste. SPECIAL CONDITIONS FOR THE ENTRY OF COTTON AND COVERS FROM MEXICO 319.8-11 From approved areas of Mexico. 319.8-12 From the West Coast of Mexico. 319.8-13 From Northwest Mexico. 319.8-14 Mexican cotton and covers not otherwise enterable. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS 319.8-16 Importation into United States of cotton and covers exported therefrom. 319.8-17 Importation for explortation, and importation for transportation and exportation; storage. 319.8-18 Samples. Sec. 319.56-21 Administrative instructions prescribing method of fumigation of fieldgrown grapes from specified countries. 319.56-2m Administrative instructions prescribing method of treatment of imported yams. 319.56-2n Administrative instructions prescribing method of fumigation of apricots, grapes, nectarines, peaches, and plums from Chile. 319.56-2p Administrative instructions prescribing method of fumigation of oranges, grapefruit, citrons (Citrus medica), and tangerines for the Mediterranean fruit fly. 319.56-2r Administrative instructions prescribing a combination treatment of fumigation plus refrigeration for certain fruits. 319.56-2s Administrative instructions prescribing method of treatment of avocados for the Mediterranean fruit fly, the melon fly, and the oriental fruit fly. 319.56-2t Administrative instructions prescribing treatment and relieving restrictions regarding importation of okra from Mexico, the West Indies, and certain countries in South America. 319.56-3 Applications for permits for importation of fruits and vegetables. 319.56-4 Issuance of permits. 319.56-5 Notice of arrival by permittee. 319.56-6 Inspection and disinfection of importations of fruits and vegetables. 319.56-7 Inspection of baggage and cargo on the dock. 319.56-8 Territorial applicability. the public hearing required thereunder, the Administrator of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service hereby determines that the unrestricted importation into the United States from all foreign countries and localities of (1) any parts or products of plants of the genus Gossypium, including seed cotton; cottonseed; cotton lint, linters, and other forms of cotton fiber (not including yarn, thread, and cloth); cottonseed hulls, cake, meal, and other cottonseed products, except oil; cotton waste, including gin waste and thread waste; and any other unmanufactured parts of cotton plants; and (2) second-hand burlap and other fabrics, shredded or otherwise, which have been used or are of the kinds ordinarily used, for containing cotton, grains (including grain products), field seeds, agricultural roots, rhizomes, tubers, or other underground crops, may result in the entry into the United States of the pink bollworm (Pectinophora gossypiella (Saund.)), the golden nematode of potatoes Heterodera rostochiensis Wr.), the flag smut disease (Urocystis tritici Koern.), and other injurious plant diseases and insect pests, and said Administrator hereby further determines, that, in order to prevent the introduction into the United States of said plant diseases and insect pests, which are new to or not heretofore widely prevalent or distributed within and throughout the United States, it is necessary to forbid the importation into the United States of the plants and products, including fabrics, specified above, except as permitted in the regulations supplemental hereto. Hereafter the plants and products specified above shall not be imported or offered for entry into the United States from any foreign country or locality except as permitted by said regulations, and the plants and products permitted by the regulations to be imported or offered for entry shall be subject to the provisions of sections 1, 2, 3, and 4 of said Plant Quarantine Act (7 U.S.C. 154, 156, 157, and 158): Provided, That whenever the Deputy Administrator of the Plant Protection and Quarantine Programs shall find the existing conditions as to pest risk involved in the importation of the articles to which the regula tions supplemental hereto apply, make it safe to modify, by making less stringent the restrictions contained in any of such regulations, he shall publish such findings in the administrative instructions, specifying the manner in which the restrictions shall be made less stringent, whereupon such modification shall become effective; or he may, upon request in specific cases, when the public interests will permit, authorize such importation under conditions specified in the permit to carry out the purposes of this part that are less stringent than those contained in the regulations. (b) As used in this section the term "United States" shall have the meaning ascribed to it in the regulations supplemental hereto. [24 FR 10788, Dec. 29, 1959, as amended at 36 FR 24917, Dec. 24, 1971; 37 FR 10554, May 25, 1972] § 319.8a Administrative instructions relating to the entry of cotton and covers into Guam. The plants and products specified in § 319.8(a) may be imported into Guam without further permit, other than the authorization contained in this paragraph. Sections 319.8-2 and 319.83 shall not be applicable to such importations. In addition, such importations need not comply with the requirements of § 319.8-4 relating to notice of arrival inasmuch as there is available to the inspector the essential information normally supplied by the importer at the time of importation. Sections 319.8-5 through 319.8-27 shall not be applicable to importations into Guam. Inspection of such importations may be made under the general authority of § 330.105(a) of this chapter. If an importation is found infected, infested, or contaminated with any plant pest and is not subject to disposal under this part, disposition may be made in accordance with § 330.106 of this chapter. (a) Cotton. Parts and products of plants of the genus Gossypium, including seed cotton; cottonseed; cotton lint, linters and other forms of cotton fiber, not including yarn, thread and cloth; cottonseed hulls, cake, meal, and other cottonseed products, except oil; waste; and all other unmanufactured parts of cotton plants. (b) Seed cotton. Cotton as it comes from the field. (c) Cottonseed. Cottonseed from which the lint has been removed. (d) Lint. All forms of raw ginned cotton, either baled or unbaled, except linters and waste. (e) Linters. All forms of cotton fiber separated from cottonseed after the lint has been removed, excluding socalled hull fiber. (f) Waste. All forms of cotton waste derived from the manufacture of cotton lint, in any form or under any trade designation, including gin waste and thread waste; and waste products derived from the milling of cottonseed. Gin trash is not within the definition of waste. (g) Gin trash. All of the material produced during the cleaning and ginning of seed cotton, bollies or snapped cotton except the lint, cottonseed, and gin waste. (h) Covers. Second-hand burlap and other fabrics, shredded or otherwise, including any whole bag, any bag that has been slit open, and any part of a bag, which have been used, or are of the kinds ordinarily used, for containing cotton, grains (including grain products), field seeds, agricultural roots, rhizomes, tubers, or other underground crops. Burlap and other fabrics, when new or unused are excluded from this definition. (i) Uncompressed. Baled or packaged to a density not exceeding approximately 20 pounds per cubic foot. |