Kava to Wallis and Futuna Islands

Piper methysticum

Common Name: Kava

Conditions: Import permit required.

Last updated: 1 July 2009

Wallis and Futuna Islands General Requirements

General Information

For enquires about this standard email the Plant Exports Group:

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

Scope

This standard specifies the Wallis and Futuna Islands phytosanitary requirements. If a commodity or commodity group is not identified within this ICPR exporters should contact:

  • Wallis and Futuna Islands directly in order 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 Wallis and Futuna Islands:

Not specified

General Requirements

Prohibitions

Scientific name

Common name

Plant part prohibited

Alocasia spp.

Kape

All

Artocarpus incisa

Bread fruit

All
 

Bark

All

Carica papaya

Papaya

All

Cocos nucifera

Coconut

All

Colocasia spp.

Talo

All
 

Compost

All

Cyrtosperma spp.

Pulaka

All

Elaeis guineensis

Oil palm

All

Helianthus spp.

Sun flower

All except seed

Ipomea batatas

Kumara, sweet potato

All except tubers
 

Manure

All

Musa spp.

  

All except fresh fruit

Musacee

  

All except fresh fruit of Musa spp.
 

Packaging of plant origin

All

Phoenix dactylifera

Date palm

All except dried dates

Pineapple comosus

Pineapple tree

All

Saccharum officinarum

Sugar cane

All
 

Sawdust and wood shavings

All
 

Soil

All
 

Straw

All

Xanthosoma spp.

Talo fiti

All
 

Wood without the bark stripped

All

Quarantine Pests

Bactrocera dorsalis,
Bactrocera tryoni
Bactrocera cucurbitae
Urocystis cepulae
Phorbia antiqua
Peronospora destructor
Corynebacterium sepedonicum
Synchytrium endobioticum
Heterodera spp,
Ditylenchus destructor
Globodera pallida
Globodera rostochiensis
Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Colorado beetle).

Maximum Pest Limits (MPL’s)

For all commodities exported to Wallis and Futuna requiring phytosanitary certificates, MPL's are:

Quarantine pests* specified by Wallis and Futuna 0.5%
Soil 25g/600unit

*Quarantine pests for Wallis and Futuna include organisms identified within:

  • Quarantine pests of this standard
  • Additional declarations
  • Phytosanitary import permit

Note: Where an importing country does not specify any quarantine pests within the above, the MPL of 5% is to be applied for all injurious pests. Refer Section 2.2.1 of Phytosanitary Inspection Standard.

Inspection on Arrival

Not specified

Sampling Rate

Not specified

Ports of Entry

Not specified

Transit Requirements

Not specified

Last updated: 16 December 2009

Disclaimer

The information in this standard is provided on the following basis. The phytosanitary requirements found in this standard may be used as the basis of export certification. However, requirements may be changed by importing countries at any time at short notice or with no notice to New Zealand. This information is provided strictly on the basis that the Crown, the Ministry of Agriculture & Forestry, its statutory offices, employees, agents and all other persons responsible for or associated with the compilation, writing, editing, approval, or publication of the imformation:

1. disclaim any and all responsibility for any inaccuracy, error, omission, lateness, or any other kind of inadequacy, deficiency or flaw in, or in relation to, the information; and

2. without limiting (1) above, fully exclude any and all liability of any kind on the part of all of them, to any person or entity that chooses to rely on this information

Compliance with this standard is not to be taken as a guarantee that any particular goods will be granted access to any overseas market.