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Ik: COTTON -WOOL (Manufactured) AND KAPOK: Admitted without fumigation. 
15. t COTTON BEDDINGS: Including mattresses, "bedcovers, cushions, 
furniture containing unmanufactured cotton: 
a. Disinfection at the port of entry in the steam sterilizers of the 
quarantine authority, at owner's expense and risk, at 120° C. 
for at least 2 hours. 
"b. If accompanied by an official certificate affirming disinfection 
at the port of export in a steam sterilizer under pressure not 
more than one month previous to arrival at the port of entry, 
they will be exempted from treatment. 
c. This arrangement can be canceled at any time by the Ministry. 
16. COTTON AND COTTONSEED: Permits for transit by air may be issued 
for the transit of cotton and cottonseed by air mail under the following 
restrictions: 
a. Containers to be any metal boxes, soldered, and on no account to 
be opened in Egyptian territory. 
b. Transfer should take place only by airplanes in the same hangar 
(airdrome) . 
c. Transit is limited to airplanes alone. 
d. Consignments must not be kept in Egyptian territory more than 15 
days; they must be under the control of both the Ministry and the 
Customs while in Egypt. The Customs shall record the date of 
arrival, number of consignments, date of re-exportation (exit), 
and the number of consignments transferred to another airplane. 
A copy of this information will be forwarded to the Plant Quar- 
antine officials at the same Customs office. 
Violation of any of these restrictions involves the immediate destruc- 
tion of the respective consignment. 
17. FLOWEFS, BULBS, TUBERS, CORMS, RHIZOMES: 
a. Authorization in advance. 
b. Certificate of freedom from the lesser and greater bulb flies 
( Eumerus strigatus (Fall.) and (Lampetia ( Merodon ) equestris (F.)) 
c. Inspection on arrival. 
d. Fumigation before entry. 
