[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 19, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 19CFR12.31]

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                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
  CHAPTER I--UNITED STATES CUSTOMS SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
 
PART 12--SPECIAL CLASSES OF MERCHANDISE--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 12.31  Plant pests.

    The importation in a live state of insects which are injurious to 
cultivated crops, including vegetables, field crops, bush fruits, and 
orchard, forest or shade trees, and of the eggs, pupae, or larvae of 
such insects, except for scientific purposes under regulations 
prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture, is prohibited. All packages 
containing live insects or their eggs, pupae, or larvae arriving from 
abroad, unless accompanied by a permit issued by the Department of 
Agriculture, shall be detained and submitted to the U.S. Department of 
Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Plant 
Protection and Quarantine

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Programs of that Department for inspection and determination of their 
admissibility into the United States.

[28 FR 14710, Dec. 31, 1963, as amended by T.D. 78-99, 43 FR 13060, Mar. 
29, 1978; T.D. 82-145, 47 FR 35476, Aug. 16, 1982; T.D. 89-1, 53 FR 
51253, Dec. 21, 1988]