[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 5]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR322.1]

[Page 371-372]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
 CHAPTER III--ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 322--HONEYBEES AND HONEYBEE SEMEN--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 322.1  Importation of honeybees and honeybee semen.

    (a) No persons may import honeybees or honeybee semen, except as 
otherwise provided in this part.
    (b) Honeybees or honeybee semen from Canada may be imported into the 
United States without any further restrictions under this part.
    (c) Honeybee semen from any country listed below is designated as a 
restricted article and may be imported only in accordance with the 
provisions in this part.

Australia
Bermuda
France
Great Britain
Sweden

    (d) Honeybees from any country or locality other than Canada, may be 
imported without complying with other provisions of this part if:
    (1) Imported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for experimental 
or scientific purposes;
    (2) Imported at the Plant Germplasm Quarantine Center, Building 320, 
Beltsville Agricultural Research Center East, Beltsville MD 20705, or at 
a port of entry designated by an asterisk in Sec. 319.37-14(b);
    (3) Imported pursuant to a departmental permit issued for such 
honeybees and kept on file at the port of entry;

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    (4) Imported under conditions specified on the departmental permit 
and found by the Deputy Administrator to be adequate to prevent the 
introduction into the United States of diseases or parasites harmful to 
honeybees, or genetically undesirable germ plasm of honeybees, i.e., 
conditions of treatment, processing, shipment, disposal; and
    (5) Imported with a departmental tag or label securely attached to 
the outside of the container, and with such tag or label bearing the 
name of the person to whom the permit is issued.
    (e) Honeybees and honeybee semen from New Zealand may transit the 
United States en route to another country under the following 
conditions:
    (1) The honeybees or honeybee semen must be accompanied by a 
certificate issued by the New Zealand Department of Agriculture 
certifying that the honeybees or honeybee semen were derived in or 
shipped from an apiary in New Zealand;
    (2) The honeybees or honeybee semen must be shipped nonstop to the 
United States for transit to another country;
    (3) The honeybees must be contained in cages that are completely 
enclosed by screens with mesh fine enough to prevent the honeybees from 
passing through. Each pallet of cages must then be covered by an escape-
proof net that is secured tightly to the pallet so that no honeybees can 
escape from underneath the net;
    (4) The honeybees must be shipped by air through a port staffed by 
an inspector.\1\ The honeybees may be transloaded from one aircraft to 
another at the port of arrival in the United States, provided the 
transloading is done under the supervision of an inspector and the area 
used for any storage of the honeybees between flights is within a 
completely enclosed building.
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    \1\ For a list of ports staffed by inspectors, contact the Animal 
and Plant Health Inspection Service, Plant Protection and Quarantine, 
Port Operations, Permit Unit, 4700 River Road Unit 136, Riverdale, 
Maryland 20737-1236.
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    (5) At least 2 days prior to the expected date of arrival of 
honeybees at a port in the United States, the shipper must notify the 
APHIS Officer in Charge at the port of arrival of the following: the 
date of arrival and departure; the name and address of both the shipper 
and receiver; the quantity of queens and the number of cages of package 
honeybees in the shipment; and, the name of the airline carrying the 
shipment.
    (f) Any honeybees or honeybee semen offered for import or 
intercepted entering the United States and not in compliance with this 
part shall be immediately exported from the United States by the 
importer or shall be destroyed by an inspector. Pending exportation or 
destruction, the honeybees or honeybee semen shall be subject to the 
immediate application of such safeguards against escape of diseases or 
parasites harmful to honeybees, or undesirable species or subspecies of 
honeybees, as the inspector determines necessary to prevent the 
introduction into the United States of diseases or parasites harmful to 
honeybees, or undesirable species or subspecies of honeybees.

(Approved by the Office of Management and Budget under control number 
0579-0072)

[50 FR 25689, June 21, 1985, as amended at 59 FR 656, Jan. 6, 1994; 59 
FR 67133, Dec. 29, 1994; 60 FR 6000, Feb. 1, 1995]