Dear Fierycloud. I am by no means an expert on phytosanitary matters. I live in Iceland, wich is an island republic east of Greenland in the North-Atlantic and has a semi-arctic, oceanic climate. The growing season up here is quite a short period - starting in May and due in September. The summer climate is rather wet, windy and chilly - and the winters are long, dark, wet, windy and relatively warm although we can never be sure how "today's" or "to-morrow's" weather will turn out. Right now - at 10:00 GMT/hours - the daylight is just "bursting on", it is rainy with temperatures around 8°C [46°F]. In my country a plain "International Phytosanitary Certificate" from the country of export is sufficient for import of plants. It is provided by phytosanitary authorities in the country of export, but must be asked for by the exporter and issued after authentic inspection. [Might be costly if it is out of the ordinary rutines!] This is what applies for ordinary and commercial plants of horticultural and agricultural origin. For wild plants and plants for forestry-cultivation are specific rules, set by individual states and international treaties. You live in Taiwan - wich is also an island. Island-states have to stick to strict rules for plantimports in order to avoid invasive alien species that might be a threat to the natural flora. I think that there must be an official authority in Taiwan, like Agricultural or Environmental adminstration, who issues rules and lists on what you can import and what not. To me it seems the easiest way for you to find out is that you should contact the agricultural/environmental authority in your country and ask for extensive information. I think you will find all information APHIS can provide on their website. Best wishes, Hafsteinn. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fierycloud" <fierycloud2002@yahoo.com.tw> To: <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 6:23 AM Subject: [pbs] Is there a U.S. version of phytosanitary requirement Hello Hafsteinn: Thanks for your reply. I think I should make my question more clearly. I had got several time of needs of replacement of phytosanitary certificate while importing from Netherlands. 1. Due to the full botanical name, only genus name is not always acceptable. Because the species in the same genus may still have different quarantine requirements , or even some of them are weed for Taiwan while other species are not. 2. There are always lack of some pest in the additional declarations on the phytosanitary certificate. 3. If the species are re-export,, the pest status of all the countries they are produced and repacked in will be considered. And re-export phyto is different from export phyto. 4. "Time lag". The inspector could only issue the phytosanitary certificate according to the manual now, even the newest quarantine requirement are just on the way to his office. (The inspector had contact the main office in Wageningen before shipping once time, but I still need to got a replacement finally at that time. ) So I would like to know that if the APHIS have release the newest manual to the inspectors or on the internet for reference. (Maybe It is just because that my orders are mostly not the usual bulk species such as Tulipa and lilium bulbs from Netherlands to Taiwan.) Best Regards Su-Hong-Ciao -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/