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BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE [Jan.-Mar. 
Agricultura y Fomento offers the following explanation : " The regulation 
covers every kind of plant product intended for propagation and applies also 
to living plants, including trees and shrubs, or so-called nursery stock." 
The required certification emphasizes freedom from virus diseases. Since 
infection with virus diseases can be detected by field inspections only, the 
required certificate can be issued only by authorized State inspection services 
and not by this Bureau. The Director adds that shipments of plant material 
intended for propagation, from nurseries that are State inspected and which 
are officially recognized by the respective States, are acceptable without indi- 
vidual certificates. In other words, a seasonal State nursery inspection certi- 
ficate is acceptable. In the absence of such certificates, the shipper must obtain 
a certificate based on an inspection of the plants intended for exportation to 
Mexico and on inspections of those plants in the nursery during the growing 
season for virus diseases. 
Lee A. Strong, 
Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
B. P. Q.-357, Supplement No. 2 March 9, 1935. 
PLANT-QUARANTINE IMPORT RESTRICTIONS, REPUBLIC OF ARGENTINA 
PLANTS AND PLANT PRODUCTS FOR WHICH A PHYTOSANITARY CERTIFICATE AND 
AN IMPORT PERMIT ABE REQUIRED 
Recently issued Argentine customs regulations, based on the decree of May 6, 
1932, as amended by that of July 7, 1933 (see p. 6, B. P. Q.-357) amplify para- 
graph 1 of article 1 of the decree of May 6, 1932, as amended, by furnishing the 
following list of plants and plant products which must be certified for export to 
Argentina : 
Almonds 
Aniseed 
Barley 
Beans 
Beet roots 
Birdseed 
Cacao bark 
Cacao beans 
Cane su«ar 
Carob beans (Ceratonia 
siliqua) 
Cereals for food purposes 
Chestnuts 
Chicory coffee 
Chufa (Cyperus esculentus) 
Cinnamon 
Clove-flower seeds 
Cloves 
Coconuts 
Coffee beans 
Corn 
Flax 
Fruits (fresh or frozen) 
Fruits (dried, in general) 
Garlic 
Hazelnuts 
Herbs (aromatic and non- 
medicinal) 
Herbs in general, obtained 
from plants 
Lupines 
Malt 
Marjoram (wild) 
Millet 
Nuts (shelled or unshelled) 
Peas (green, whole, shelled, 
or crushed) 
Peanuts 
Peppers in general 
Peppers (chili, whole or 
crushed) 
Pine kernels 
Pistachios 
Potatoes 
Prunes 
Raisins 
Rice 
Rice bran 
Rice refuse or residuum 
Rye 
Saffron 
Seeds (ground and their 
hulls) 
Seeds for propagation 
Stock feeds (nutriment for 
livestock, herbs and 
shoots of vegetables and 
plants) 
Vegetables (not preserved) 
Wheat (whole or crushed) 
Yerba mate (Ilex para- 
guensis) 
Also plants (live, and their parts, including cuttings, rootstocks, shoots, roots, 
bulbs, tubers, leaves ; fruits, fresh, dried or dissected ; seeds, etc., intended for 
propagation, consumption, or for industrial or medical use). 
From the above it would appear necessary for the shipper of any of the above- 
named products to transmit with each shipment a duly visaed certificate. In 
this connection, inspectors will continue to be guided by Foreign Plant Quaran- 
tines Memorandum No. 12. The special bilingual certificates will be used for 
fresh fruits only, and the standard form no. 375 will be used for all the other 
products mentioned above. 
Lee A. Strong, 
Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
