Re: seed import permits

And presumably the large international seed exchanges will do the same 
thing-send their seed to a clearinghouse in the US who will then break up 
the orders and forward them to the individuals who ordered them.
Private individuals will figure out ways to get them into the country-like 
having them mailed to points along the US/Canada border and smuggled in by 
friends and relations. I wouldn't be surprised to see that plants that 
really ought to be excluded by virtue of invasiveness or disease 
considerations will be brought in by this method.
Or they assume that any of the really useful introductions will be imported 
en masse by US seed houses and wholesale nurseries and become readily 
available.
Another possibility is that they expect this to be a short term 
situation-that funding for enforcement will be cut and that things will go 
back to normal after a few years. The US has been through plant quarentine 
laws that were quite extreme in the past. Who knows, they might be right.
I'd like to help out with importing your delphiniums but unfortunately I'm 
on the wrong side of the border, where as far as I know we aren't 
irradiating our mail yet. But thanks for the reminder to order some 
delphinium seed from you.

Bob Campbell



>From: "Dowdeswell" <dowdeswell@delphinium.co.nz>
>Reply-To: perennials@mallorn.com
>To: perennials@mallorn.com
>Subject: Re: seed import permits
>Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 08:48:38 +1300
>
>OK, this might be do-able - I've been talking with Min Ag here, we will 
>need
>a phyto cert for *each* package of seed but if I make up the orders each
>week and post them all to an agent in US who posts each separate order
>on to the customer I just need a separate form for each packet which i can
>fill out and supply myself and one phyto cert for the whole order which
>brings the cost down considerably. There is a lot more work in supplying
>the forms for each packet but with luck I can automate that on the
>computer. There is a time cost in getting the phyto cert (either driving to
>their office and waiting - about 4 hrs each time or couriering the package
>and courier back - about 3 days) and in having the US agent post them on
>and there is a small cost per customer for the phyto, but neither should
>impact in a major way. If I need to FedEx the package to avoid irradiation,
>that is another cost to add to the mix! So, the good news is, you can still
>get our seed, the bad news is, the cost will go up a little. Who wants to 
>be
>our US agent?
>
>Janice


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