[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 9CFR98.31]

[Page 605-606]
 
                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
  CHAPTER I--ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 98_IMPORTATION OF CERTAIN ANIMAL EMBRYOS AND ANIMAL SEMEN
--Table of Contents
 
                     Subpart C_Certain Animal Semen
 
Sec. 98.31  General prohibitions; exceptions.

    (a) No product subject to the provisions of this subpart shall be 
brought

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into the United States except in accordance with the regulations in this 
subpart and part 94 of this subchapter; nor shall any such product be 
handled or moved after physical entry into the United States before 
final release from quarantine or any other form of governmental 
detention except in compliance with such regulations; Provided, That, 
except as prohibited by section 306 of the Act of June 17, 1930, as 
amended (19 U.S.C. 1306), the Administrator may upon request in specific 
cases permit products to be brought into or through the United States 
under such conditions as he or she may prescribe, when he or she 
determines in the specific case that such action will not endanger the 
livestock or poultry of the United States.
    (b) Animal semen may not be imported into the United States from any 
region other than the region in which it was collected.

[55 FR 31558, Aug. 2, 1990. Redesignated at 56 FR 55809, Oct. 30, 1991, 
and amended at 58 FR 37643, July 13, 1993; 59 FR 26596, May 23, 1994; 62 
FR 56026, Oct. 28, 1997]