(c_) Live plants or parts thereof, rooted seedlings, cuttings, 
•grapevines and parts thereof, scions, shoots, buds, 
layers, etc., and other parts of live plants; 
(d) Collections of all kinds of wild and cultivated plants, 
including entire plants or parts thereof; regardless 
of the method of preparation and character of the 
specimens, including pressed herbarium specimens, dried 
in the natural state, of higher and lower types of plants 
(phanerogams and cryptogams) , and entomological collections 
of all kinds; 
(e) Agricultural raw material and products; raw cotton*, ginned 
cotton, linters, and cotton wastes, and. the fibers of 
other malvaceous plants ( Hibiscus spp. etc.); 
(f) trapping and packing material capahle of carrying infection; 
wraps that may have served to pack raw cotton, and other 
materials listed in articles 13 and 15; also textiles, 
paper, excelsior, straw, hay, seaweed, moss, and other 
materials that have served as packing for seeds, planting 
material, live plants and parts thereof, named in the 
present list; 
(g_) Soil, soil briquettes, soil samples, and soil in containers 
with live plants. 
Art. 3. JLns pection ori arriva l. -The quarantine inspection and 
examination of the materials named in article 2 are effected by quarantine 
inspectors at points of entry (ports, customhouses, airports, and 
frontier stations) or such materials are sent to quarantine laboratories 
f»r more thorough examination. 
Art. 4. Import permit required for each shipment .- The importa- 
tion into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from abroad of shipments 
of the materials listed in article 2 is allowed only under a special 
quarantine permit issued in each case by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic 
Quarantines, People's Oo.nmissariat of Agriculture, Union of Soviet Socialist 
Republics, upon application ~by the interested organizations. The permits 
are filed in advance by the established offices of the People's Commissariat 
for Foreign Trade, Division of Imports. 
Art. 5. Phytosanitary certificate required .- In connection with 
the purchase in foreign countries of material subject to quarantine re- 
striction (under license issued by the P. C. F. T. , U. S. S. R.), import- 
ing organizations must demand from foreign exporters an official certifi- 
cate for each shipment, issued by the Quarantine Service or other official 
plant protection organization of the exporting country. The certificate 
must affirm that the shipment concerned is free from quarantined pests 
(insects and diseases) listed by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic 
* For details of cotton restrictions see Decree No. 2384, p. 12. 
