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(d) Prescribing a certain route of transit through the 
territory of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; 
(e_) Restricting the localities, methods, and use of such 
material and products in the realm of the Union of Soviet 
Socialist Republics. 
Art. 9. Destruction of dangerous material .- If the condition 
of the infected shipment is such that its retention constitutes a 
potential danger of infesting the territory with injurious insects 
and diseases subject to quarantine, such shipment shall be subject 
to destruction. The Quarantine Inspection Service must immediately 
destroy the same and prepare a legal document of such action in the 
presence of representatives of the People's Commissariat of the 
Interior, of Customs and, if possible, of the consignee. The Adminis- 
tration of Customs and Ports must offer full cooperation at this 
quarantine inspection. 
Arts. 1C, 11, and 12 do not concern the foreign shipper. 
Importation Prohibited 
Art. 13. No one, except certain government institutions 
mentioned in article 14 of this decree, is allowed to import the 
following plants and plant products from abroad: 
(a) Potatoes - for technical purposes, consumption, or propaga- 
tion, on account of the wide distribution in foreign 
countries of potato wart ( S.ynchtrium endobi oticum (Schilb.) 
Perc); Colorado potato beetle ( Leptinotarsa d ecern line at a 
Say); potato tuber moth ( ( Phthorimaea ) G-norimo schema 
operculella Zell.); potato nematodes ( Heterodera rostochien - 
sis TToll .) , which are not known to exist in the Union of 
Soviet Socialist Republics; 
(b) All kinds of root crops, tubers, and all other subterranean 
vegetables and growing food products, also aerial vege- 
tables with parts of the root system in soil, even with 
minute particles of soil clinging to parts of plants; 
( c) Pulb s , rhi z ome s , tube r s , roots, and o the r sub t e r ranean 
parts of f lorering and ornamental plants for private 
persons; 
(d) Any kind of live plants in pots or otherwise packed in 
soil; soil alone intended for plants; 
(e_) Citrus planting and grafting material infected with citrus 
canker from the following countries: Australia, Hawaii, 
India, Indo-China, Malayan Islands, Siam, Philippines, 
Formosa, Ceylon, Union of South Africa, Java, Japan, and 
the State of Louisiana, U. 3. A. 
