Ginseng to Canada

Panax spp.

Common Name: Ginseng

Conditions:

Phytosanitary import permit required. Phytosanitary certificate and additional declarations are required. Seeds must be free of soil and plant debris including stems, leaves and other above-ground parts.

Additional Declaration:

"The material in this consignment is free of Colletotrichum panacicola"

And the following:

"The plant material included in this shipment was grown in soil in which the Potato Wart Disease, Synchytrium endobioticum (Schilb.) Perc. is known not to occur and in which, based on official soil surveys or other precautionary practices, the Potato Cyst Nematodes, Globodera rostochiensis Woll. and Globodera pallida Stone, and the Soybean Cyst nematode (Heterodera glycines) (Ichinoke) are known not to occur."

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Seed and Grain for Sowing to Canada

Forage Crops

Conditions:

Includes, but not limited to, Lotus corniculatus (birds foot trefoil), Medicago sativa (alfalfa) and forage crops not otherwise mentioned. Phytosanitary import permit and phytosanitary certificate not required. Material must be clean and free from soil.

Tree and Shrub Seed

Conditions:

Phytosanitary import permit and phytosanitary certificate required.

Vegetable and Flower Seed

Conditions:

Seed must be commercially packaged. Phytosanitary import permit and phytosanitary certificate not required.

Cereal seeds (grains)

Conditions:

Phytosanitary import permit and phytosanitary certificate required.

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Canada General Requirements

General Information

For enquires about this standard email the Plant Exports Team:

• plantexports@maf.govt.nz

To help Plant Exports process your email please record in the subject line of your email descriptive keywords which are relevant to your enquiry i.e. ICPR enquiry-Country-specific details.

For urgent enquiries phone, fax or email the Plant Exports Team

• Telephone: 0800 008 333 (selecting option 3, then option 4)
• Fax: 64 4 894 0733
• Email: plantexports@maf.govt.nz

Scope

This standard specifies Canada’s phytosanitary requirements. If a commodity or commodity group is not identified within this ICPR exporters should contact:

• Canada directly to ascertain requirements
  Or
• MAF Biosecurity New Zealand (MAFBNZ). (Plant Exports)

Please note, the determination and provision of phytosanitary requirements, for a commodity not identified within an ICPR, is undertaken on a cost recovery basis. A link to the list of Plant Exports Fees and Charges is available on

• http://www.biosecurity.govt.nz/regs/exports/plants/fees

Users of this document are strongly advised to review all sections of the ICPR for the determination of a commodity’s phytosanitary requirements.

Phytosanitary Legislation

The following legislation controls the importation of plants and plant materials into Canada:

• Plant Protection Act, 19 June 1990
• Plant Protection Regulations, 28 April 1995
• CFIA Directive D-07-03
• CFIA Directive D-08-04
• CFIA Directive D-99-01
• CFIA Directive D-94-18
• CFIA Directive D-07-03 (4th revision)
• CFIA Directive D-98-01 (7th revision)
• CFIA Directive D-96-20 (6th revision)
• CFIA-Directive D-99-01 (4th and 5th revision)
• CFIA-Directive D-97-04 (9th revision)
• CFIA-Directive D-95-09
• CFIA-Directive D-95-08
• CFIA Directive D-96-08
• CFIA Directive D-96-03
• CFIA Directive D-95-28
• CFIA Directive D-97-04 (10th revision)
• CFIA Directive D-94-25
• CFIA Directive D-94-26
• CFIA Directive D-96-05

Definitions

Bulbs	corms, tubers, rhizomes, stolons, bulbils, crowns and other underground plant parts of species other than Allium spp. and Solanum tuberosum
Cereal crops	Avena sp (oats), Hordeum sp. (barley), Secale sp. (rye), Triticum sp. (wheat) and X Triticosecale sp. (triticale) only
Forage crops	Includes, but not limited to, Lotus corniculatus (birds foot trefoil), Medicago sativa (alfalfa) and forage crops not otherwise mentioned
CFIA	Canadian Food Inspection Agency

General Requirements

Prohibitions

Phytosanitary Import Permits

There are two types of permits to import;
1. the commodity is not prohibited entry but specific requirements such as treatment at origin or a phytosanitary certificate may apply;
2. a commodity is prohibited entry but may be imported for the purpose of scientific research, educational, processing, industrial or exhibition purposes.

Applicants for import permits must be either a Canadian citizen or permanent resident, a person authorised under the laws of Canada to reside in Canada for six months or more and who will have control of the import or an agent or officer of a Canada based corporation who resides in Canada.

i) To qualify for "scientific research" under a section 43 permit, the material intended for importation must be:

A. destined for a research laboratory owned and operated by a chartered academic institution, a federal, provincial, municipal or native self government, or a research and development section of a corporation;

B. contained within a research laboratory / facility, grown in a green house or if plant material field planted by a researcher with the appropriate academic qualifications who is an employee of the research organization or institution; and

C. safeguarded, treated or disposed (e.g. incinerated, autoclaved) of in accordance with the Permit to Import conditions upon completion of the research project, unless the importer is authorized by the CFIA to maintain the material for further propagation or as part of a collection or a reference bank. When applying for an import permit for scientific research purposes, the permit applicant must provide the CFIA with an outline / description of the proposed research project.

ii) To qualify for "educational purposes" under section 43 of the regulations, the material intended for importation must be destined for a federal or provincial owned and operated school, a chartered academic institution or institutions and provincially or federally recognized museums or zoos and used on the institution's property for teaching purposes.

iii) To qualify for "exhibition purposes" under section 43 of the regulations, the material intended for importation must be destined for an exhibition / show in Canada (also see D-94-31).

iv) To qualify for "processing" or "industrial purposes" under section 43 of the regulations, the material intended for importation must be destined for a manufacturing, processing or treatment plant which will alter or modify the material in such a manner that will render any pests in the material non-viable.

Refer Commodity Class Requirements and Commodity Specific Requirements to confirm whether a phytosanitary import permit is required

Phytosanitary import permits state the phytosanitary requirements for importation

The phytosanitary import permit number must be shown on all documentation (including the phytosanitary certificate) and containers.

Phytosanitary import permits may be requested from:

Import Permit Unit
Plant Health and Production Division
Canadian Food Inspection Agency
3^rd Floor East
59 Camelot Drive
Ottawa
Ontario KIA OY9
CANADA

Facsimile: 613 228 6605
Website: http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/plaveg/internat/offbure.shtml

General import conditions may be accessed at the following url:

Imports homepage

http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/plaveg/impe.shtml

Or

Imports contacts page

Direct contact with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency can be made via their three Import Service Centres. Refer url’s below for contact details

http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/plaveg/oper/guidee.shtml

And

For conditions of entry for specific commodities refer automated reference import database

http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/imp/airse.shtml

Phytosanitary Certificates

• Refer Commodity Class Requirements for commodities that require a phytosanitary certificate
• Phytosanitary certificates must be issued within 14 days of export
• Where applicable, phytosanitary import numbers must be identified upon the phytosanitary certificate.
• IMPORTANT GENERAL NOTE: A phytosanitary certificate is required for regulated light brown apple moth (LBAM) host taxa (Appendix 1) except where specific taxa have market access to Canada (prior approval has been granted).
• “Prior approval required” – this requirement applies to light brown apple moth (LBAM) host taxa that has not previously been shipped to Canada from New Zealand (refer Appendix 1 for list of LBAM regulated host taxa).
• Some LBAM host taxa with “prior approval” have been identified to date and are specified within Appendix 1. MAFBNZ is awaiting on advice from CFIA for the rest of commodities currently not identified as having prior approval
• As soon as MAFBNZ gets information from CFIA on commodities with prior approval, MAFBNZ will post this in this document. Exporters are in the meantime encouraged to check on the importation status through its importing agents in Canada or directly with CFIA.

Maximum Pest Limit (MPL)

For all commodities exported to Canada requiring phytosanitary certificates, the MPL's are:

Quarantine pests* specified by Canada

0.5%

*Quarantine pests for the Canada include organisms identified within:

• Quarantine pests of this standard
• additional declarations
• phytosanitary import permit

Ports of Entry

Commodity classes are not restricted to entry via specific ports

Inspection on Arrival

Consignments from New Zealand are liable for inspection by CFIA upon arrival.

Plants for planting are subject to inspection and audit sampling on arrival

 

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