(c) Fresh fruits and vegetables. The edible, more or less succulent, portions of food plants in the raw or unprocessed state. (d) Cotton and cotton covers. 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 secondhand 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. (e) Sugarcane or parts or by-products thereof. Stems of sugarcane (Saccharum spp.), or cuttings or parts thereof, sugarcane leaves, or bagasse or other parts of sugarcane plants, except seeds, not sufficiently processed to remove plant pest danger. (f) Cereals. Seed and other plant parts of all members of the grass family (Gramineae) which yield grain or seed suitable for food, including, but not limited to, wheat, rice, corn and related plants. This definition shall include straw, hulls, chaff and products of the milling process (but excluding flour) of such grains and seeds as well as stalks and all other parts of broomcorn. (g) Cut flower. The highly perishable commodity known in the commercial flower-producing industry as a cut flower, and being the severed portion of a plant, including the inflorescence, and any parts of the plant attached thereto, in a fresh state. (h) Packing materials. Any plant or plant product, or soil as defined in §330.100(t) of this chapter, or other substance associated with or accompanying any commodity or shipment to serve for filling, wrapping, ties, lining, mats, moisture retention, protection, or any other auxiliary purpose. The word "packing," as used in the expression "packing materials," shall include the presence of such materials within, in contact with, or accompanying such commodity or shipment. (1) Administrative instructions. Published documents relating to the enforcement of the regulations in this subpart, issued under the authority of such regulations by the Deputy Administrator of the Plant Protection and Quarantine Programs. (j) State, Territory, or District of the United States. Guam, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands of the United States, or the continental United States (including Alaska). (k) United States. The States, the District of Columbia, Guam, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands of the United States. (1) Oceania. The islands of the Central and South Pacific, including Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia, as well as Australia, New Zealand, and the Malay Archipelago. (m) Far East. The countries of East and Southeast Asia, including Japan, Korea, Taiwan, the northeastern provinces of Manchuria, the Philippines, Indo-China, and India. § 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 part 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 part 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 articles from Guam into or through any other State, Territory, or District is also regulated by part 330 of this chapter. REGULATIONS GOVERNING ENTRY OF INDIAN CORN OR MAIZE 319.24-1 Applications for permits for importation of corn. 319.24-2 Issuance of permits. 319.24-3 Marking as condition of entry. 319.24 4 Notice of arrival of corn by permittee. 319.40-2 General prohibitions and restrictions; relation to other regulations. 319.40-3 General permits; articles that may be imported without a specific permit; articles that may be imported without either a specific permit or an importer document. 319.40-4 Application for a permit to import regulated articles; issuance and withdrawal of permits. 319.40-5 Importation and entry requirements for specified articles. 319.40-6 Universal importation options. 319.40-7 Treatments and safeguards. 319.40-8 Processing at facilities operating under compliance agreements. 319.40-9 Inspection and other requirements at port of first arrival. 319.40-10 Costs and charges. 319.40-11 Plant pest risk assessment standards. Subpart-Indian Corn or Maize, 319.41 Notice of quarantine. Conditions governing the entry of citrus from South Africa. 319.56-2r Administrative instructions governing the entry of apples and pears from certain countries in Europe. 319.56-2s Administrative instructions governing the entry of apricots, nectarines, peaches, plumcot, and plums from Chile. 319.56-2t Administrative instructions; conditions governing the entry of certain fruits and vegetables. 319.56-2u Conditions governing the entry of lettuce and peppers from Israel. 319.56-2v Conditions governing the entry of citrus from Australia. 319.56-2w Administrative instruction; conditions governing the entry of papayas from Costa Rica. 319.56-2x Administrative instructions; 319.59-1 319.59-2 Definitions. Prohibited articles. Subpart-Packing Materials QUARANTINE 319.69 Notice of quarantine. 319.69a Administrative instructions and interpretation relating to the entry into Guam of plant materials specified in § 319.69. RULES AND REGULATIONS 319.69-1 Definitions. 319.69-2 Freedom from pests. 319.69-3 Entry inspection. 319.69 4 Disposition of materials found in violation. 319.69-5 Types of soil authorized for packing. Subpart-Coffee QUARANTINE 319.73 Notice of quarantine. REGULATIONS 319.73-1 Definitions. 319.73-2 Products prohibited importation. 319.73-3 Conditions for transit movement of certain products through Puerto Rico or Hawaii. portation 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) secondhand 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 regulations supplemental hereto apply, make it safe to modify, by making less stringent the restrictions contained in any of such regulations, he shall publish |