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APHIS Adds Plants to NAPPRA Prohibited Import Lists

The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is adding 22 taxa of plants that are quarantine pests, and 34 taxa of plants that are hosts of eight quarantine pests, to its lists of taxa of plants for planting for which…

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importation is not authorized pending pest risk analysis (NAPPRA), it said (here). Effective June 19, importation of these NAPPRA plants is prohibited pending completion of a pest risk analysis, which must be requested, though imports of certain plants from Canada is exempt if Canada has a significant trade history with the U.S. for a particular plant.