Howea spp

Country
United States of America (US)
Group
Nursery stock
End use
Plants
NPPO Details
Plant Protection and Quarantine, Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Criteria Criteria Required?
Import Permit Yes
Phytosanitary Certificate Yes
Additional Declaration/Endorsement Yes
Protocol Market No

Consignments are to be free from pests, soil, weed seeds and extraneous material.

A copy of the import permit must be presented to an Authorised Officer at the time of inspection.

All consignments must be bare rooted.

All consignments must be free from soil, other foreign matter or debris, prohibited plants, noxious weed seeds, and living organisms such as parasitic plants, pathogens, insects, snails and mites.

Material found to tbe co-mingled with prohibited or infested material will be subject to the same action as the prohibited or infested material (ie: re-export, destruction, etc).

The exporter/importer is responsible for ensuring that plant material imported into the USA complies with all applicable requirements stated in Title 7 Code of Federal Regulations Part 319.37.

Some species may be subject to Post Entry Quarantine.

Where applicable, the exporter is to provide evidence attesting to the endorsement and to present to the Authorised Officer at the time of inspection.

Lethal yellow pathogen and cadang-cadang pathogen are are not known to occur in Australia.

Option 1 (EXDOC Endorsement No 758)
1) The plants are free of the lethal yellow pathogen and the cadang-cadang pathogen as well as any other damaging palm pathogens, based on visual inspection,
2) Arepresentative sample of the land in which the plants were grown was microscopicallyinspected and found free from Potato cyst nematode (Globodera rostochiensis).

Option 2 (EXDOC Endorsement No 769)
1) The plants are free of the lethal yellow pathogen and the cadang-cadang pathogen as well as any other damaging palm pathogens, based on visual inspection,
2) The plants have been grown within a secure environment in a production area that is free of Potato cyst nematode (Globodera rostochiensis), in a soilless growing medium and have not been grown in soil nor come into contact with soil.
Import permit dated 5 June 2017
Initial Uploaded: 29/07/2014
Reviewed Uploaded: 18/07/2026