86 BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE [July-Sept. 
must present information to the customs offices concerning the area in which 
potatoes are grown, and interested foreigners concerning the area intended 
for planting. 
Transit permitted, under through international bill of lading 
Art. 13. The transit of foreign potatoes is permitted under the condition 
that the transportation of the shipment be effected under a through inter- 
national bill of lading from the foreign shipping station to the designated 
station in the foreign country in a sealed, well-closed, and undamaged car, 
or in sealed and undamaged containers. 
Art. 14. The exportation of potatoes from a closed district to a foreign 
country is not permitted. 
C. OTHER PLANTS, THEIR FRUITS AND PARTS 
1. Precautions against phylloxera 
Importation and transit prohibited 
Article 1. In accordance with the International Phylloxera Convention, the 
following regulations are applicable to the forwarding of articles through which 
phylloxera may be introduced: 
The importation or transit is prohibited of grapevines (stocks and cuttings 
with or without roots) ; grapevine wood (dry or fresh, whole pieces or frag- 
ments), and grapevine leaves; compost (plant refuse for manure) ; used props 
and supports ; live phylloxera and eggs thereof ; shipments of merchandise 
packed or enclosed in grapevine leaves or which contain parts of grapevines. 
Exceptions. — The importation of grapevines (stocks and cuttings with or 
without roots), grapevine wood (dry or fresh, whole pieces or fragments), and 
grapevine leaves is excepted from the prohibition when they are packed in 
cases the covers of which are secured with screws, or are in entire carloads, 
under permit from the Ministry of Agriculture, under the conditions indicated 
in the permit, and when imported through the designated authorized customs 
offices. 
Importation restricted 
Art. 2. Shipper's declaration and phylloxera certificate required. — The im- 
portation or transit of plants, shrubs, trees, seedlings, cuttings, etc., from 
nurseries, gardens, and greenhouses (coldframes, orangeries, etc.), except grape- 
vines, is permitted only through designated authorized customs offices and 
under the following conditions : 
(a) The goods must be carefully packed, but in such a manner that they 
can be inspected. 
(b) The shipment must be accompanied by the shipper's declaration which 
indicates : 
1. That the contents of the shipment were grown in his establishment; 
2. The place for which the shipment is intended and the name and 
address of the consignee ; 
3. That the shipment contains no grapevines; 
4. Whether the shipment contains plants with or without balls of earth. 
(c) Each shipment must be accompanied by a certificate from the authority 
of the country of origin affirming: 
1. That the plants are from ground separated from any grapevine stocks 
by at least 20 m or by some obstacle to the roots deemed sufficient by 
competent authority ; 
2. That the ground itself contains no grapevines ; 
3. That no grapevines have been stored there ; 
4. That if stocks infested with phylloxera have been grown there, their 
radical extirpation has been effected by repeated toxic applications and 
investigations for a period of 3 years, thus insuring complete destruction 
of insects and roots. 
Art. 3. It is not required that shipments from countries that subscribe to the 
convention be accompanied by a certificate if they originate in establishments- 
