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SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 
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Plant Sanitation of the Department of Agriculture, unless such importation is 
specifically authorized by these regulations without that requirement or with 
special ones, or is specifically prohibited. In every case, the imported products 
must be received free of earth, except those the importation of which is authorized 
without this requisite by resolution of the Plant Quarantine Board. 
Art. 2. In order to import any plants or parts thereof not exempted from the 
above requirement, the required permit must be applied for not less than 10 days 
previous to the da}' of shipment, and shall not be issued without a previous favora- 
ble report from the Plant Quarantine Board. 
EXCEPTIONS TO PERMIT REQUIREMENT 
Art. 3. The following products may be imported without the restrictions of 
article 1 of these regulations: 
(a) Plants or parts thereof, consigned to the Agricultural Experiment Station, 
under the Office of the Secretary of Agriculture, which shall remain subject to 
quarantine or other proper measures in order to prevent the introduction of 
dangerous pests, in accordance with the decision of the Department of Phyto- 
pathology and Entomology and the Department of Botany of said Agricultural 
Experiment Station. 
• (b) Fruits and vegetables for consumption coming from the United States of 
North America, provided their importation is not specifically prohibited from that 
country and that they are free from pests. 
(c) Except when specifically prohibited, if clean and free from pests, garden 
seeds, papaya, and flower seeds, when accompanied by an official phytosanitary 
certificate. 
Walnuts, pecans, hazelnuts, chestnuts, almonds, Brazil nuts, husked rice, beans, 
lima beans, chickpeas, peas, and edible grains of all kinds, and coffee beans. 
(d) Onions coming from the Canary Islands, Egypt, and Chile. 
(e) Garlic, artichoke, cabbage, and asparagus coming from Chile. 
(f) Apples, pears, peaches, quinces, nectarines, plums, mazzard cherries, 
apricots, cherries, grapes, Japanese persimmons, and melons, coming from the 
province of Coquimbo and other Chilean provinces south of it, provided they are 
accompanied by an official phytosanitary certificate stating that these products 
originated in the above-mentioned provinces, and that they are free from Panto- 
morus leucoloma, Pantomorus peregrinus, and other pests, and that the importa- 
tion is made exclusively through the port of Havana. 
(g) Fruits and agricultural products authorized by exceptions in articles 6 and 
13 of this decree. 
(h) Lily bulbs from Bermuda, provided they are packed in clean coral sand and 
are accompanied by a certificate issued by an authorized officer of the country of 
origin, stating that they are free from pests or diseases injurious to agriculture. 
(i) Preserved agricultural products. 
(j) Agricultural products imported as raw material for industrial purposes, 
except those specifically regulated or prohibited. 
(k) Agricultural products imported for medicinal purposes, in sufficient quan- 
tities for drug stores, pharmacies, and laboratories, with the same exceptions as 
stated under the above paragraph. 
(1) Manufactured agricultural products, meaning, for this purpose, such 
manufacturing as will change the natural condition of the products, by means of 
any processes that include or produce their sterilization. 
(m) Lumber and its manufactured products. 
FRUIT FROM TEXAS 
Art. 4. To prohibit the importation of all classes of fruit coming from the 
State of Texas, United States of America. 
EUROPEAN CORN BORER AND CORN DISEASES 
Art. 5. To prohibit the importation of corn on the cob from all countries, and 
of shelled corn from Australia and the Far East. 
CITRUS PLANTS AND FRUIT 
Art. 6. To prohibit the importation of plants, or parts thereof, and fruit of 
the genus Citrus, with the following exceptions: 
