APHIS Finalizes Rule Prohibiting Certain Citrus Seed Imports from CVC Countries
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is adopting as a final rule, without change, an interim rule that amended the regulations governing the importation of nursery stock to prohibit the importation of propagative seed of several Rutaceae genera from…
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certain countries where citrus greening or citrus variegated chlorosis (CVC) is present. The interim rule also required propagative seed of these genera from all other countries to be accompanied by a phytosanitary certificate with an additional declaration that neither citrus greening nor CVC are known to occur in the country where the seed was produced. (See ITT's Online Archives or 04/07/10 news, 10040799, for BP summary of the interim final rule.)