SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 
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IMPORTATION RESTRICTED 
Berseem (Egyptian clover) seeds (pars. 12 (a) and 14). 
Citrus plants i par. 8). 
Coffee plants, seeds, and beans (par. 13). 
Cottonseed (pars. 12 (a) and 15 (2)). 
Flaxseed (par. 12 (a ) >. 
Hevea rubber plants and seeds (par. 11). 
Potatoes (par. <>). 
Rubber pi mils ( par. 7). 
Sugarcane from countries other than the Fiji Islands, New Guinea, Australia, 
and the Philippine Islands (par. 10). 
IMPORTATION UNRESTRICTED 
Fruits and vegetables intended for consumption. 
Roasted or ground coffee (par. 13). 
General Regulations 
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1. Definition*. — (i) "Official certificate" means a certificate granted by the 
proper officer or authority in the country of origin. (In the United States the 
U. S. Department of Agriculture has been designated by the Burmese authorities 
as the proper authority to issue such certificates.) 
(ii) "Plant" means a living plant or part thereof, but does not include seeds. 
(iii) All provisions referring to plants or seeds shall apply also to all packing 
material used in packing or wrapping such plants or seeds. 
RESTRICTIONS ON MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION 
2. No plant shall be imported into Burma by letter or parcel post, except sugar- 
cane for planting intended to be grown under the personal supervision of the 
Deputy Director of Agriculture, East Central Circle, Pyinmana. (See also 
par 10.) 
3. No plants shall be imported into Burma by air, except those used for the 
purpose of introducing living insects accompanied by a special certificate from 
the Entomologist, Burma, stating that the plants are imported for such purpose, 
and sugarcane for the Deputy Director of Agriculture, East Central Circle, 
Pyinmana, if the conditions of paragraph 10 are satisfied. 
FUMIGATION REQUIRED 
4. No plants, other than fruits and vegetables intended for consumption, pota- 
toes, and unmanufactured tobacco, either raw or cured, shall be imported into 
Burma by sea. except after fumigation with hydrocyanic acid gas at the port 
of Rangoon, except that plants which are used for the purpose of introducing 
insect parasites may be imported without fumigation when accompanied by the 
required special certificate from the Entomologist, Burma. (Another proviso 
relates to rubber plants grown in Sumatra or in the Federated Malay States.) 
CERTIFICATE REQUIRED 
5 No plants, other than unmanufactured tobacco imported from India, fruits 
and vegetables intended for consumption, and potatoes, shall be imported into 
Burma by sea unless accompanied by an official certificate that they are free 
from injurious insects and diseases. The certificate shall be in the form prescribed, 
or in a form as near thereto as may be and supplying all the information called 
for in the prescribed form. ( See p. 6.) 
Specific Restrictions 
potatoes 
6. Potatoes shall not be imported into Burma by sea or by air. except from 
India, unless they are accompanied by— 
