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IMPORT STATUS OF PLANT COMMODITIES & RELATED ITEMS:
ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
Country of Export PROHIBITED
Items
PERMITTED
Items
Entry REQUIREMENTS
All Countries All planting material, plantcuttings, live plants,
cut flowers
& ornamentals without an import
permit
Mangoes Produce infested with pests &/or
disease
Citrus fruit (e.g., orange, lime,lemon, grapefruit,
pummelo/shaddock, tangerine,
mandarin, etc.)
Soil Other items from countries for
which no risk assessment has
been done
All planting material, plant cuttings,
live plants, cut flowers &
ornamentals
Valid Import Permit Phytosanitary Certificate
Anguilla All items (risk assessment required) - -
Barbados All items (risk assessment required) - -
Belize Citrus fruit All other items (risk assessment
required)
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Central & South America(via Miami)
All commodities not otherwisespecified (risk assessment
required)
Cut flowers Commercial shipments only Valid Import Permit
Phytosanitary Certificate
Cuba All commodities not otherwise
specified (risk assessment required)
Elephant Grass Commercial shipments only Valid Import Permit
Phytosanitary Certificate
Dominica Cut flowers Valid Import Permit
Phytosanitary Certificate
Ground provisions Phytosanitary Certificate
Guava fruit (fresh)
Mango fruit
Coconut seedlings/plants All commodities not otherwise Fruits
(except fresh guava) Phytosanitary Certificate
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Country of Export PROHIBITED
Items
PERMITTED
Items
En MENTStry REQUIRE
specified (risk assessment
required)
Guava (frozen) Valid Import Permit Phytosanitary
Certificate(confirming fruit frozen for at
least 10 days)
Dominican Republic (Santo
Domingo)
Zamia pumila (wild cycad) Valid Import Permit Phytosanitary
Certificate
Taro Eddo Tannia Sweet Potato Yam Ginger
Valid Import Permit Phytosanitary Certificate Commercial
shipments only
Passion fruit Plantains Bananas Citrus (all species) Commodities
not otherwise listed
Cucumber Avocado Eggplant Onions
Valid Import Permit Phytosanitary Certificate
Grenada All commodities not otherwisespecified (risk
assessment
required)
Spices (nutmeg, cloves, mace) Must be thoroughly dried
Guyana Citrus fruit Papaya Plantain Other fruits, vegetables
& plants
not otherwise specified
Avocado Bora Calaloo Cassava Coconut Cowpea Cruciferous
vegetables (e.g.,
cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli,
etc.)
Cucumber Eddoes Eggplant Echallot Ginger Okra
Valid Import Permit Phytosanitary Certificate Commercial
shipments only Importer registration w/PPU
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Country of Export PROHIBITED
Items
PERMITTED
Items
Entry REQUIREMENTS
Passion fruit Pepper (hot, sweet) Pineapple Pumpkin Tomato
Watermelon
Jamaica Coconut trees Palm trees Other commodities not
otherwise
specified (risk assessmentrequired)
Anthurium blooms Ginger lily blooms Heliconia blooms Hot peppers
Pumpkin
Valid Import Permit Phytosanitary Certificate Commercial
shipments only
Miami (incl. via Puerto
Rico)
Cut flowers Lime Lemon Live plants
Valid Import Permit Phytosanitary Certificate Commercial
shipments only
Citrus plants Live plants (balled & burlapped) Other
commodities not otherwise
specified (risk assessment
required) Temperate fruit & other
vegetables
Phytosanitary Certificate Commercial shipments onlyMontserrat
Valid Import Permit Phytosanitary Certificate Commercial shipments
only
Citrus (all plant parts) Coconut (all plant parts) Corn (whole
cob in husk) Guava fruit Mango fruit Papaya (all plant parts)
Pineapple fruit
Banana fruit Carrots (roots only) Cassava (tubers only) Cocoa
fruit Cruciferous crops (e.g.,
cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli,
etc.)
Corn kernels Dasheen, eddo & other aroids
(tubers)
Ginger (root only) Mango plants All cut flowers Fresh pigeon
peas (in pod) Dried pigeon peas (for planting) Sorrel fruit Sweet
potato (tubers only)
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Country of Export PROHIBITED
Items
PERMITTED
Items
Entry REQUIREMENTS
Yam (tubers only) Beans (fresh) Breadfruit Breadnut Cucurbits
(e.g., cucumber,
melon, squash, pumpkin,
watermelon, etc.)
Dasheen (leaves) Eddo (leaves) Eggplant (fruit) Jackfruit Locust
(stinking toe) Mammey apple (fruit) Okra (fruit only) Onion (bulbs
only) Pepper (sweet & hot) Pigeon peas (fresh/shelled) Tomato
fruit
Phytosanitary Certificate
Puerto Rico Other commodities not otherwisespecified (risk
assessment
required)
Cut flowers Live ornamentals (linners)
Valid Import Permit Phytosanitary Certificate Commercial
shipments only
St. Kitts & Nevis All commodities not otherwisespecified
(risk assessment
required)
Hot pepper Sweet potato Tomato Yam
Valid Import Permit Phytosanitary Certificate Commercial
shipments only
St. Lucia Jujube fruit Suriname cherry fruit Mango fruit
Carambola fruit Wax apple fruit Coconut plants Citrus fruits Other
commodities not otherwise
specified
Avocado (fruit) Banana (fruit) Breadfruit Carambola (plant only)
Cinnamon (plant only) Cucumber Cut flowers (heliconias, ginger
lilies, anthuriums, etc.) French tamarind (plant only)
Valid Import Permit Phytosanitary Certificate Commercial
shipments only
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Country of Export PROHIBITED
Items
PERMITTED
Items
Entry REQUIREMENTS
Ginger Hot pepper Jujube (plant only) Mango (plant only)
Ornamental shrubs & cuttings Pineapple Plantain (fruit only)
Pumpkin Suriname cherry (plant only) Tannia Watermelon Wax apple
(plant only)
St. Vincent & the
Grenadines
Arrowroot Asparagus Avocado (fruit) Beans Cocoa (fruit) Ferns
(foliage only) Garlic (dried) Okra Onion (dried) Orchids (blooms
only) Papaya (fruit) Passion fruit Peppers (hot & sweet)
Philodendrons (blooms only) Pigeon peas (in pod or frozen)
Sugarcane (peeled or chilled) Tomato (fruit) Watermelon
Valid Import Permit Phytosanitary Certificate
Anthurium blooms Banana (plants & leaves) Citrus (e.g.,
limes, lemons,
oranges, grapefruit, tangerine,mandarin)
Coconut (nuts & plants) Eggplant (leaves & live plants)
Corn (on the cob) Mango (fruit) Plantain (plants & leaves)
Other commodities not otherwisespecified
Arrowroot (rhizomes) Banana (fruit only) Beet root
Valid Import Permit Phytosanitary Certificate Commercial
shipments only
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Country of Export PROHIBITED
Items
PERMITTED
Items
Entry REQUIREMENTS
Cabbage Carrots Cassava Cauliflower Celery Corn (dried &
shelled) Dasheen (roots & leaves) Eddoes (roots & leaves)
Eggplant Ginger root Ginger lily (blooms) Heliconia (blooms)
Lettuce Peanuts Pineapples Plantain (fruit only) Pumpkin Sugarcane
(cuttings) Sweet potato Tannia (foliage & tubers) Tobacco
(leaves) White potato Yam (tubers)
Thailand All commodities not otherwisespecified (risk
assessment
required)
Orchids (live plants, preferablybare-root)
Tamarind (in shell)
Valid Import Permit Phytosanitary Certificate Commercial
shipments only
Trinidad and Tobago Papaya (fruit) Pineapple (fruit) Other
commodities not otherwise
specified
Cabbage Cucumber Pumpkin Pepper (hot & sweet) Tomato
Watermelon
Valid Import Permit Importer registration Phytosanitary
Certificate Commercial shipments only
United Kingdom All commodities not otherwisespecified (risk
assessment
Roses (live plants or cuttings) Valid Import Permit
Phytosanitary Certificate
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Country of Export PROHIBITED
Items
PERMITTED
Items
Entry REQUIREMENTS
required)
Seed potatoes (origin: Scotland) Valid Import Permit
Phytosanitary Certificate Commercial shipments only
White (Irish) potatoes Phytosanitary certificateUpdated February
27, 2007
Plant Protection Officer
Plant Protection Department of Agriculture
Ministry of Agriculture, Lands, Marine Resources &
AgroIndustry
P.O. Box 1282St. Johns
Antigua and Barbuda
For further information, please contact the Plant Protection
Unit at
562-1923, (268)764-1255 or (268)462-1213, or
[email protected]
