[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 19, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 19CFR12.32]

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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. 12.32  Honeybees and honeybee semen.

    (a) Honeybees from any country may be imported into the U.S. by the 
Department of Agriculture for experimental or scientific purposes. All 
other importations of honeybees are prohibited except those from a 
country which the Secretary of Agriculture has determined to be free of 
diseases dangerous to honeybees.
    (b) Honeybee semen may be imported into the U.S. only from countries 
determined by the Secretary of Agriculture to be free of undesirable 
honeybees, and which take adequate precautions to prevent the 
importation of undersirable honeybees and their semen.
    (c) The importation of honeybees and honeybee semen is governed by 
joint regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of 
the Treasury published in Treasury Decisions and the Federal Register 
from time to time.

[T.D. 85-3, 50 FR 1044, Jan. 9, 1985, as amended by T.D. 89-1, 53 FR 
51253, Dec. 21, 1988]

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