APS REGULATORY ALERT E-MAIL
To: APS U.S. Members
From: APS Public Policy Board
Re: Regulatory Alert - APHIS
Requests Comments on Importation of Dwarfed (Penjing)
Plants and Logs, Lumber and Other Unmanufactured Wood
Articles
IMPORTATION OF SPECIFIC SPECIES OF
ARTIFICIALLY DWARFED (PENJING) PLANTS
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service has prepared an environmental assessment for a proposal to allow the
importation of specific species of artificially dwarfed (penjing)
plants of the genera Buxus, Ehretia
(Carmona), Podocarpus, Sageretia, and Serissa to be
imported into the United States from the People's Republic of China in an
approved growing medium subject to specified growing, inspection, and
certification requirements. APHIS is making this environmental assessment
available to the public for review and comment. APHIS will consider all
comments that are received on or before
IMPORTATION OF LOGS, LUMBER, AND
OTHER UNMANUFACTURED WOOD ARTICLES INTO THE UNITED STATES
APHIS is proposing to amend the
regulations that govern the importation of logs, lumber, and other unmanufactured wood articles into the United States to
require that logs and lumber of tropical species of Eucalyptus from South
America be fumigated with methyl bromide or heat treated prior to importation
and that wood chips of tropical species of Eucalyptus from South America be
fumigated with methyl bromide, heat treated, or heat treated with moisture
reduction prior to importation. They are also proposing to allow wood chips
derived from both tropical and temperate species of Eucalyptus from
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