[pbs] Seed importation (was What's blooming now)
Jane McGary
janemcgary at earthlink.net
Sat May 6 12:16:30 EDT 2006
Angela in Australia wrote:
>I have some seeds of hosta ventricosa
>and mirabilis jalapa ( marvel of peru)
>to give away. I will send via PBS, if ok to send to the USA, also some
>bulbs of hippeastrum.
As of May 15 new regulations regarding importation of small lots of seed
will go into effect in the USA. Joyce Fingerut of NARGS, who has been
instrumental in getting these new regulations through the bureaucracy, has
written a detailed article on the subject for the summer 2006 issue of the
Rock Garden Quarterly. I (editor of that journal) can send a copy privately
(NOT FOR REPRODUCTION) before the issue appears to foreign seed donors who
need it.
The gist, however, is that the IMPORTER (e.g., Dell Sherk of the PBS
exchange) needs to get a permit to import "small lots of seed," and will
also receive a supply of labels which have to be sent to the sender for
pasting on the parcel. The parcel must contain an alphabetized list of the
contents. Presently the USA does not have a "white list" as Australia does;
the list is used to identify "black list" items, such as the whole genus
Lathyrus.
Jane McGary
Editor, NARGS
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