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Quarantine Programs3 for information as to applicable conditions. If diversion or change of Customs entry is desired at port, confirmation will be given by the Plant Protection and Quarantine Programs to the appropriate Customs officers and Plant Protection and Quarantine Programs inspectors.

(b) Safeguards. (1) The unloading, landing, retention on board as stores and furnishings or cargo, transshipment and exportation, transportation and exportation, onward movment to the port of entry as residue cargo or under a Customs entry for immediate transportation, and other movement or possession within the United States of prohibited or restricted products and articles under this part shall be subject to such safeguards as may be prescribed in the permits and this part and any others which, in the opinion of the inspector, are necessary and are specified by him to prevent plant pest dissemination. In the case of prohibited or restricted products or articles subject to this part which are unloaded or landed for transshipment and exportation or transportation and exportation, or for onward movement to the port of entry as residue cargo or under a Customs entry for immediate transportation, this shall include necessary safeguards with respect to any movement within the port area between the point of arrival and the point of temporary storage, other handling, or point of departure, including a foreign trade zone. Prohibited and restricted products and articles subject to this part which are unloaded or landed for transshipment and exportation or transportation and exportation, or for onward movement as residue cargo or under a Customs entry for immediate transportation, shall be transshipped, or transported and exported from the United States, or moved onward immediately. This shall mean the shortest practicable interval of time commensurate with the risk of plant pest dissemination required to transfer the products or articles from one carrier to another and to move

3 The Deputy Administrator, Plant Protection and Quarantine Programs, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250.

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States. If, in the opinion of the inspector, considerations of risk of plant pest dissemination require, such movement shall be made without regard to the noncompetitive or competitive relations of the carriers concerned, and the inspector shall promptly report to the Plant Protection and Quarantine Programs the circumstances when the emergency is so acute that subsequent movement is required on a carrier of a company other than the one bringing the products or articles to the United States or on which onward movement was contemplated by the shipper or forwarding carrier. Prohibited or restricted plants, plant products, plant pests, and soil which were intended for entry into the United States under part 319, 321, or 330 of this chapter, or for movement into or through the United States under this part, and which were refused such entry or movement before unloading or landing, or which were refused such entry or movement after unloading or landing and are immediately reloaded on the same carrier, may be retained on board pending removal from the United States or other disposal, but shall be subject to the safeguards specified under this section. Prohibited or restricted products and articles which were refused entry or movement under said parts after unloading or landing and which are not immediately reloaded in accordance with this section shall be subject to such safeguard action as the inspector deems necessary to carry out the purposes of this part.

(2) Safeguards prescribed by an inspector under this section shall be prescribed to the owner by the inspector in writing except that the inspector may prescribe the safeguards orally when, in his opinion, the circumstances and related Customs procedures do not require written notice to the owner of the safeguards to be followed by the owner. In prescribing safeguards, the relevant requirements of parts 319, 321, and 330 of this chapter and this part shall be considered. The safeguards prescribed shall be the minimum required to prevent plant pest dissemination. Destruction or exportation shall be required only when no less drastic measures are deemed by the inspector to be

adequate to prevent plant pest dissemination. The inspector may follow adninistrative instructions promulgated or certain situations, or he may follow procedure selected by him from administratively approved methods known to be effective in similar situaGions. In the case of aircraft that are contaminated with insect pests, only an insecticidal formulation, approved or use in aircraft, may be so applied as an emergency measure. If the applicacion is not effective against the insect bests or if other pests must be safeguarded against, the inspector shall report the circumstances promptly to the Plant Protection and Quarantine Programs and receive instructions as to safeguards that will not have a delete-ious effect on the structure of the aircraft or its operating equipment. In prescribing safeguards consideration will be given to such factors as:

(i) The nature and habits of the plant bests known to be, or likely to be, present with the plants, plant prodacts, soil, or other products or articles.

(ii) Nature of the plants, plant prodacts, plant pests, soil, or other prodacts or articles.

(iii) Nature of containers or other packaging and adequacy thereof to prewent plant pest dissemination.

(iv) Climatic conditions as they may have a bearing on plant pest dispersal, and refrigeration if provided.

(v) Routing pending exportation. (vi) Presence of soil.

(vii) Construction or physical condicion and type of carrier.

(viii) Facilities for treatment, or for ncineration or other destruction.

(ix) Availability of transportation facilities for immediate exportation.

(x) Any other related factor which should be considered, such as intent to export to an adjacent or nearby counry.

(c) Disposal. (1) If prohibited or restricted products or articles subject to Chis part are not safeguarded in accordance with measures prescribed under this part, or cannot be adequately safeguarded to prevent plant pest dissemination, they shall be seized, destroyed, or otherwise disposed of according to law. Whenever disposal action is to be taken by the inspector he shall notify the local Customs officer in advance.

(2) When a shipment of any products or articles subject to this part has been handled in accordance with all conditions and safeguards prescribed in this part and in the permit and by the inspector, the inspector shall inform the local Customs officer concerned of the release of such products or articles, in appropriate manner.

[25 FR 1929, Mar. 5, 1960, as amended at 36 FR 24917, Dec. 24, 1971; 37 FR 10554, May 25, 1972; 62 FR 65009, Dec. 10, 1997]

§352.11 Mail.

(a) Transit mail. (1) Plants, plant products, plant pests, and soil which arrive in the United States in closed dispatches by international mail or international parcel post and which are in transit through the United States to another country shall be allowed to move through the United States without further permit than the authorization contained in this section. Notice of arrival shall not be required as other documentation meets the requirement for this notice.

(2) Inspectors ordinarily will not inspect transit mail or parcel post, whether transmitted in open mail or in closed dispatches. They may do so if it comes to their attention that any such mail or parcel post contains prohibited or restricted products or articles which require safeguard action. Inspection and disposal in such cases will be made in accordance with this part and part 330 of this chapter, and in conformity with regulations and procedures of the Post Office Department for handling transit mail and parcel post.

(b) Importation for exportation. Plants and plant products to be imported for exportation, by mail, will be handled under permit in accordance with Part 351 of this chapter.

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transportation and exportation, under this part, have met all applicable permit and other requirements for importation, including inspection and treatment, as provided in part 319, 321, or 330 of this chapter, the form of Customs entry may be changed and the shipment may be diverted at any time to permit delivery of the products and articles to a destination in the United States, so far as the requirements in this part are involved. The Customs officer concerned at the original port of Customs entry shall be informed by the inspector that such release has been made and that such change of entry or diversion is approved under this part by appropriate endorsement of Customs documents.

[25 FR 1929, Mar. 5, 1960, as amended at 62 FR 65009, Dec. 10, 1997]

8352.14 Costs.

All costs incident to the inspection, handling, safeguarding, or other disposal of prohibited or restricted products or articles under the provisons in this part shall be borne by the owner. Services of the inspector during regularly assigned hours of duty at the usual places of duty shall be furnished without cost to the person requesting the services, unless a user fee is payable under § 354.3 of this chapter.

[56 FR 14844, Apr. 12, 1991]

8352.15 Caution.

In applying safeguards or taking other measures prescribed under the provisions in this part, it should be understood that inexactness or carelessness may result in injury or damage. It should also be understood by the owners that emergency measures prescribed by the inspector to safeguard against plant pest dissemination may have adverse effects on certain products and articles and that they will take the calculated risk of such adverse effects of authorized measures.

88352.16-352.28 [Reserved]

§352.29 Administrative instructions:

Avocados from Mexico.

Avocados from Mexico may be moved through the United States to destina

tions outside the United States only in accordance with this section.

(a) Permits. Before moving the avocados through the United States, the owner must obtain a formal permit in accordance with § 352.6 of this part.

(b) Ports. The avocados may enter the United States only at the following ports: Galveston or Houston, Texas; the border ports of Nogales, Arizona, or Brownsville, Eagle Pass, El Paso, Hidalgo, or Laredo, Texas; or at other ports within that area of the United States specified in paragraph (f) of this section.

(c) Notice of arrival. At the port of arrival, the owner must provide notification of the arrival of the avocados in accordance with § 352.7 of this part.

(d) Inspection. The owner must make the avocados available for examination by an inspector. The avocados may not be moved from the port of arrival until released by an inspector.

(e) Shipping requirements. The avocados must be moved through the United States either by air or in a refrigerated truck or refrigerated rail car or in refrigerated containers on a truck or rail car. If the avocados are moved in refrigerated containers on a truck or rail car, an inspector must seal the containers with a serially numbered seal at the port of arrival. If the avocados are removed in a refrigerated truck or refrigerated rail car, an inspector must seal the truck or rail car with a serially numbered seal at the port of arrival. If the avocados are transferred to another vehicle or container in the United States, an inspector must be present to supervise the transfer and must apply a new serially numbered seal. The avocados must be moved through the United States under Customs bond.

(f) Shipping areas. Avocados moved by truck or rail car may transit only that area of the United States bounded on the west and south by a line extending from El Paso, Texas, to Salt Lake City, Utah, to Portland, Oregon, and due west from Portland; and on the east and south by a line extending from Brownsville, Texas, to Galveston, Texas, to Kinder, Louisiana, to Memphis, Tennessee, to Louisville, Kentucky, and due east from Louisville. All cities on these boundary lines are

ncluded in this area. If the avocados re moved by air, the aircraft may not and outside this area. Avocados that nter the United States at Nogales, Arzona, must be moved to El Paso, Texas, by the route specified on the ormal permit.

52 FR 27671, July 23, 1987, as amended at 54 'R 43167, Oct. 23, 1989]

352.30 Administrative instructions: Certain oranges, tangerines, and grapefruit from Mexico.

The following provisions shall apply o the movement into or through the JUnited States under this part of oranges, tangerines, and grapefruit from Mexico in transit to foreign countries ia United States ports on the Mexican order.

(a) Untreated fruit; general—(1) Permit End notice of arrival required. The owner hall, in advance of shipment of unreated oranges, tangerines, or graperuit from Mexico via United States orts to any foreign country, procure a ormal permit as provided in §352.6, or pplication for permit may be submitted to the inspector at the port in he United States through which the hipment will move. Notice of arrival of such fruit shall be submitted as required by § 352.7.

(2) Origin: period of entry. Such fruit nay enter from any State in Mexico hroughout the year, in accordance with requirements of this section and other applicable provisions in this part.

(3) Cleaning refrigerator cars and airraft prior to return to the United States From Canada. Refrigerator cars and aircraft that have been used to transport antreated oranges, tangerines, or rapefruit from Mexico through the United States to Canada shall be careully swept and freed from all fruit, as vell as boxes and rubbish, by the carier involved prior to reentry into the United States.

(4) Inspection; safeguards. (i) Each shipment under paragraph (a) of this section shall be subject to such inspecions and safeguards as are required by Chis section and such others as may be prescribed by the inspector pursuant to 352.10.

(ii) Truck loads of untreated oranges, tangerines, and grapefruit arriving From Mexico at authorized ports in the

United States for loading into refrigerator cars, aircraft, or ships for movement to a foreign country shall be preinspected by an inspector for freedom from citrus leaves before entry into the United States or be accompanied by an acceptable certificate from an inspector as to such freedom. Trucks loaded with such untreated fruit that are not free of such leaves will be denied entry into the United States. Loaded trucks free of such leaves shall be convoyed by an inspector from point of arrival in the United States to the point of unloading, or shall move under such other safeguards as the inspector shall prescribe.

(iii) All trucks, refrigerator cars, aircraft, and ships used to transport untreated fruit from Mexico through the United States to a foreign country under this paragraph (a) shall be subject to such treatment at the port of first arrival and elsewhere as may be required by the inspector, pursuant to this part, in order to prevent plant pest dissemination.

(b) Additional conditions for overland movement of certain untreated fruit. Untreated oranges, tangerines, and grapefruit from Mexico may move overland through the United States to a foreign country only in accordance with the following additional conditions:

(1) Containers. Such fruit shall be packed in containers of approximately the size customarily used by the trade for marketing such fruit in the United States.

(2) Ports of entry. Such fruit may enter only at Nogales, Arizona; or Brownsville, Eagle Pass, El Paso, Hidalgo, or Laredo, Texas.

(3) Carrier-(i) Railway cars. Refrigerator cars, in good condition, of United States or Canadian ownership only shall be used to transport such fruit by railway through the United States to Canada or other foreign country.

(ii) Aircraft. Aircraft may be used to transport such fruit from the ports named in paragraph (b)(2) of this section to points in Canada.

(iii) Trucks. Trucks may be used to haul such fruit from Mexico to shipside, or to approved refrigerated storage pending lading aboard ship, in Brownsville or Galveston, or alongside

refrigerator cars or aircraft at the ports named in paragraph (b)(2) of this section for movement to a foreign country. Such trucks shall be of the van-type and shall be kept closed from time of entry into the United States until unloading is to commence; or the load shall be covered with a tarpaulin tightly tied down which shall not be removed or loosened from time of entry into the United States until unloading is to commence. Trucks may not be used otherwise to transport such fruit from Mexico overland through the United States.

(4) Bonded rail movement—(i) Routing. Shipments of such fruit may move by direct route, in Customs bond and under Customs seal, without diversion or change of Customs entry en route, from the port of entry to the port of exit en route to Canada or to an approved North Atlantic port in the United States for export to another foreign country, as follows: The fruit may be entered at Nogales, Arizona, only for direct rail routing to El Paso, Texas, after which it shall traverse only the territory bounded on the west by a line drawn from El Paso, Texas, to Salt Lake City, Utah, and then to Portland, Oregon, and on the east by a line drawn from Brownsville, Texas, through Galveston, Texas, and Kinder, Louisiana, to Memphis, Tennessee, and then to Louisville, Kentucky, and due east therefrom, such territory to include railroad routes from Brownsville to Galveston and direct northward routes therefrom. Such fruit may also enter the United States from Mexico at any port listed in paragraph (b)(2) of this section for direct eastward rail movement in Customs bond and under Customs seal, without diversion en route, for reentry into Mexico.

(ii) Icing. All refrigerator cars transporting such fruit from States in Mexico other than Sonora shall be iced prior to crossing at Brownsville, Eagle Pass, El Paso, or Laredo, Texas, and shall be re-iced if necessary to prevent plant pest dissemination south of Little Rock, Arkansas, or a line drawn east and west therefrom. North of such a line no further icing is required. Icing, insofar as this part requires, may be omitted if all openings leading from the car to the ice bunkers are

covered with a 14-mesh fly screen in a manner satisfactory to the inspector. All such cars must move through the United States with all doors closed and sealed.

(5) Bonded air cargo movement. Shipments of such fruit may move by direct route as air cargo, in Customs bond and without change of Customs entry while in the United States en route from the port of entry, to Canada. If an emergency occurs en route to the port of export that will require transshipment to another carrier, the owner should apply to the Plant Protection and Quarantine Programs for information as to applicable conditions.

(c) Additional conditions for movement of certain untreated fruit by water route. Untreated oranges, tangerines, and grapefruit from Mexico may move from Mexico to a foreign country by water route through the United States under this section only in accordance with the following additional conditions:

(1) Ports of entry. Such oranges, tangerines, and grapefruit may enter only at New York, Boston, or such other North Atlantic ports in the United States as may be named in permits, for exportation, or at Brownsville, or Galveston, Texas, for exportation by water route.

(2) Routing through North Atlantic ports. Such fruit entering via North Atlantic ports in the United States shall move by direct water route to New York or Boston, or to such other North Atlantic ports as may be named in the permit only for immediate direct export by water route to any foreign country, or for immediate transportation and exportation in Customs bond by direct rail route to Canada.

(3) Exportation from Brownsville or Galveston by water. (i) Such fruit laden in refrigerated holds for export from Brownsville or Galveston shall be stowed in closed compartments if the ship is to call at other Gulf or South Atlantic ports in the United States. The compartments are not to be opened while in such other Gulf or South Atlantic ports.

4 The Deputy Administrator, Plant Protection and Quarantine Programs, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250.

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