Canada Adds Plants to Prohibited Imports List; May Vary from U.S. Requirements, APHIS Warns
Then Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service warned U.S. exporters of eight types of plants to Canada to be careful about where those plants came from, after Canada added 122 types of plants to its not authorized pending plant risk analysis (NAPPRA) list on July 29. While most of the U.S. and Canadian NAPPRA lists are harmonized, the following plants may enter the U.S. from some countries that are prohibited for entry into Canada: Cotoneaster spp., Datura spp., Ficus spp., Hedera spp., Pinus spp., Quercus spp., Rosa spp., and Rubus spp. Those types of plants legally imported into the U.S. from certain countries may then be refused entry into Canada.
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Plants added to Canada’s NAPPRA list that were in the U.S. prior to July 29 will still be allowed to ship to Canada, but must include documentation of country of origin and date of entry into the U.S. After July 29, plants imported into the U.S. from countries on Canada’s NAPPRA list will not be eligible for re-export into Canada from the U.S. This also applies to the progeny of plants imported from countries on Canada’s NAPPRA list, APHIS said. “These plants and their progeny, no matter how long they are in the United States, will not be considered U.S. origin and may not be exported to Canada,” said APHIS.