Dried Cut Flowers and Foliage to Western Samoa

Conditions:

Phytosanitary import permit required. Phytosanitary certificate required.

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Samoa General Requirements

General Information

For enquires about this standard email the Plant Exports Team:

plantexports@maf.govt.nz

To help 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 or fax the Plant Exports Team

Telephone: 0800 008 333 (selecting option 3, then option 4)
Fax: 64 4 894 0733

Scope

This standard specifies Samoa's phytosanitary requirements for the stated commodities only. If a commodity or commodity grouping is not identified within Commodity Class Requirements or Commodity Specific Requirements exporters should contact:

• Samoa directly in order to ascertain requirements. Refer Phytosanitary Import Permits

or

• Biosecurity New Zealand (Exports). Please note, the determination of phytosanitary requirements is undertaken on a cost recovery basis

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 Samoa:

• Plants and Soil Importation (Disease Control) Regulations 1951
• Agriculture, Forests & Fisheries Ordinance 1959
• Plant Importation Instruction 1961
• Plants Act 1984
• Guidelines for Pesticide & Import Permits 1991

General Requirements

Prohibitions

The following commodities are prohibited entry unless specifically authorised by the Director of Samoa MAFFM

Scientific Name	Common Name	Plant Part Prohibited
Alocasia spp.	Taro	All except tissue culture
Cocos spp.	Coconut	All
Coffea spp.	Coffee	All plants from areas where coffee bean borer (Stephenodoes coffeae) occurs and where Blackwood disease (Thielaviopsis neocaledoniae) occurs
Colocasia spp.	Taro	All except tissue culture
Dioscorea spp.	Yam	All
Heva spp.	Rubber plant	All from areas where American leaf disease (Dothiella ulei) occurs
Manihot esculenta	Cassava/Manioc /Tapioca	All
Musa spp.	Banana	All from areas where Panama disease (Fusarium oxisporum var. cubense) or Bunchy top virus disease occur
Oryza sativa	Rice	All except rice for human consumption
Saccharum officinale	Sugar cane	All
Theobroma cacao		All from areas where Witche's broom disease (Marasmius perniciosus) or Swollen shoot virus occur
	Hay, chaff, grain husks, leaves	All - when used as packing or bedding material
	Soil, sand and clay	All

Phytosanitary Import Permits

Phytosanitary import permits state the general phytosanitary requirements for importation

Phytosanitary import permits are required for all commodity classes exported from New Zealand

Import permits are normally valid for 12 months and allow for multiple entry of consignments

Import permits and conditions of import may be requested from:

Chief Quarantine Officer
P. O. Box 1874
Ministry of Agriculture, Forests, Fisheries and Meteorology (MAFFM)
Apia
Samoa
Telephone: (00685) 22 561
Facsimile: (00685) 24 576

Phytosanitary Certificates

Phytosanitary certificates are required for the importation of all commodity classes from New Zealand.

Quarantine Pests

Not specified by Samoa

Maximum Pest Limits (MPL’s)

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

Quarantine pests* specified by Samoa	0.5%
Soil	25g/600unit

*Quarantine pests for Samoa 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

All consignments will be inspected upon arrival

Sampling Rate

5% of the consignment sampled on a random basis

Ports of Entry

Commodities are not restricted entry via specific ports

Transit Requirements

Not specified by Samoa