Import permits

Karl Church 64kkmjr@gmail.com
Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:34:51 PST
Yes, just like the large rats that we received once with some ah equipment.
Took almost a year to get rid of them.
Karl Church
On Feb 22, 2013 4:24 PM, "B Spencer" <bea.spencer@sympatico.ca> wrote:

> Interesting. Finally, something more complicated and annoying than the
> Agriculture Canada rules. Does this prohibition include importing seeds
> from
> Canada? We do not have to get any permits for small lots of seeds , the
> horticultural kind, for now at least. I got seeds from South Africa,
> Germany, the United Kingdom, no problem. As for bulbs and plant material it
> is a different story. No permit required from the USA, but the
> phytosanitary certificate, shipping costs and brokerage fees (each shipment
> will be opened, taxed and levied a fee for  "labour"), makes it so
> expensive
> that only a well to-do and  determined person would consider it. I did get
> some tree peonies from Alderman's and a couple of grafted cornus mas
> (dogwood) from  Oregon too, the edible kind, but can only dream about many
> new super hardy magnolias for my collection.The phytosanitary certificate
> seems to be four times as expensive on the East Coast as it is in Oregon.
> Any other country...and it is the same hustle as for you folks only we do
> not have an  branch of Canada Agriculture on every corner. The permit comes
> from Ottawa. I do not have to send a photograph, I think.
> Maybe the USDA think that every seed order will come attached with a
> terrorist disguised as a pea pod.? All that red tape, yet the Emerald Ash
> Borer is destroying out trees to give an example. And how did it get here?
> Probably in pallets with some shipment of goods that had nothing to do with
> agriculture.
> Bea Spencer
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