PLANT QUARANTINE IMPORT RESTRICTIONS 
OF THE 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES 
BASIC LEGISLATION 
Bureau of Plant Industry Act, No. 3027, March 8, 1922 
"An Act to Proteot the Agricultural Industries of the 
Philippine Islands from Injurious Plant Pests and Diseases 
Existing in Foreign Countries, etc." 
Agricultural Pests Quarantine Act, No. 3767, November 26, 1930 
"An Act Regulating the Importation, Bringing, or Introduction 
into the Philippine Islands, of Living Animals, such as Insects, 
Birds, etc." 
Act No. 3027 prohibits the importation into the Philippines of 
all plant materials, soil or any material whatever, either by 
itself or as packing or covering, which may be a source or medium 
of infection or infestation by diseases or insects or other 
animals destructive to agriculture, or a medium for the intro- 
duction of noxious weeds, except through designated ports, and 
subject to such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by 
the Director of Agriculture and approved by the Secretary of 
Agriculture and Natural Resources. (The authority of the 
Director of Agriculture was vested in the Director of Plant 
Industry by Act No. 3639.) 
Act No. 3767 prohibits the importation, bringing, or introduction 
into the Philippines, for curiosities or pets, for controlling 
agricultural pests, or for any other purpose, of any living 
insect in any stage, or any birds, bats, reptiles, crustaceans, 
mollusks, mammals or other animals not classed as "domestic 
animals", except upon a written permit from the Director of 
Plant Industry and through ports designated by him. 
REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE IMPORTATION AND EXPORTATION 
OF PLANT MATERIALS INTO AND FROM THE PHILIPPINES 
(Administrative Order No. 2, Revised, January 2, 19^8) 
1. Definitions: 
"Plant materials" shall include living plants, rhizomes, fruits, 
seeds, cuttings, bulbs and corns, grafts, leaves, roots, scions 
and fruit pita, and such other parts of plants as are capable of 
propagation, or of harboring plant pests and diseases. 
"Country" shall refor to and includo independent political units 
or sovereign nations, territories, colonies, and political or 
territorial subdivisions. 
