64 BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE [July-Sept. 
competent sanitary authorities are not opposed, and that the importer pays 
the imposts required by law. 
Art. 4. Tubers deemed by competent authorities unlit for planting or for 
food shall be destroyed under the supervision of the same at the expense of 
the importer. 
Art. 5. Concerns the storage of imported seed potatoes. 
Art. 6. Concerns the requirements to be met by the importer in applying for 
a permit to import seed potatoes. 
Arts. 7. S, and 9. Concern importers of seed potatoes. 
B. E. P. Q.-3S0 August 15, 3935. 
PLANT-QUARANTINE IMPORT RESTRICTIONS, REPUBLIC OF HAITI 
This summary of the plant-quarantine import restrictions of the Republic of 
Haiti has been prepared for the information of nurserymen, plant-quarantine 
officials, and others interested in the exportation of plants and plant products 
to that country. 
It was prepared by Harry B. Shaw, plant quarantine inspector, in charge of 
Foreign Service Information of the Division of Foreign Plant Quarantines, 
from his translations of the texts of the law of August 2, 1934, and the order 
of November 23, 1934, and reviewed by the Service National cle la Production 
Agricole et de l'Enseignement Rural of Haiti. 
The information contained in this circular is believed to be correct and 
complete up to the time of preparation, but it is not intended to be used 
independently of, nor as a substitute for, the original texts, and it is not to 
be interpreted as legally authoritative. 
Lee A. Strong, 
Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
PLANT-QUARANTINE IMPORT RESTRICTIONS, REPUBLIC OF HAITI 
Basic Legislation 
The law of August 2, 1934, empowers the President to establish by order all 
necessary regulations to prevent the entry into the Republic of insects, patho- 
genic organisms, and agents that transmit plant and animal diseases, and to 
combat diseases that may prejudice plant or animal production, as well as to 
impose penalties for violations of the provisions of such regulations. 
General Regulations 
(Order of Nov. 23, 1934) 
importation prohibited 
Article 1. The importation into Haiti is prohibited of the extensively culti- 
vated plants, or parts thereof, hereafter designated, including roots, steins, 
fruits, and seeds, namely, coffee (Coffea spp.), cotton {Gossi/pium spp.), sugar- 
cane (Saccharuni offieinarum L.), coconut palms (Gocos nucifera L.), oil-yield- 
ing palms, citrus, banana (Musa spp.), cacao (Tlwobroma cacao L.), kapok 
(Ceiba spp.), sisal {Agave sisalana Perrine), as well as any other plant which 
later may be designated by the National Service of Agricultural Production 
and Rural Education. 
Nevertheless, the said Service may, exceptionally, for technical or economic 
purposes, introduce the above-mentioned plants or parts thereof, on taking 
necessary precautions to protect the agriculture of Haiti against the introduc- 
tion of injurious insects or diseases. 
certification op fresh fruits against mediterranean fjjuit fly 
Art. 2. Fresh fruits intended for consumption may be imported on the ex- 
press condition that they are accompanied by a certificate attesting that they 
have been sterilized or that they proceed from a region in which the Mediter- 
ranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata Wied.) does not exist. The certificate shall 
be signed by a competent authority of the country of origin. 
