[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 5]
[Revised as of January 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR318.58-2]

[Page 185-186]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
 CHAPTER III--ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 318--HAWAIIAN AND TERRITORIAL QUARANTINE NOTICES--Table of Contents
 
    Subpart--Fruits and Vegetables From Puerto Rico or Virgin Islands
 
Sec. 318.58-2  Regulated articles.

    (a) Prohibited movement. Fruits, vegetables, and other products 
specified in Sec. 318.58 and not eligible for inspection and 
certification under Sec. 318.58-4 or otherwise expressly authorized 
movement in the regulations in this subpart are prohibited movements.
    (b) Regulated movement. (1) Subject to the conditions provided in 
this section, and to any treatment prescribed by the Deputy 
Administrator of the Plant Protection and Quarantine Programs, the 
following fruits and vegetables may be moved when they are free from 
plant litter, are marked in compliance with Sec. 318.58-6, and have been 
inspected by an inspector and certified by him to be free from injurious 
insect infestation (including the West Indian fruitfly and the bean pod 
borer) or to have been given prescribed treatment:

    Citrus fruits (orange, grapefruit, lemon, citron, and lime);
    Corn (sweet corn on cob);
    Mangoes (Mangifera spp.), no larger than size 8 (no more than 700 g 
each), when treated as prescribed in the Plant Protection and Quarantine 
Treatment Manual;
    Peppers;
    String beans, lima beans, faba beans, and pigeon peas, in the pod, 
and fresh okra. However, products within this subparagraph will be 
certified for movement to Pacific Coast ports or to Atlantic Coast ports 
south of Baltimore, Maryland, only when they have been treated as 
prescribed by the Deputy Administrator of the Plant Protection and 
Quarantine Programs, and under the supervision of an inspector. Such 
products may be certified for movement to Baltimore, Maryland, and 
Atlantic Coast ports north thereof without such treatment, but untreated 
fresh okra may be so certified only for immediate processing or 
consumption in these northern areas.

    (2) The following fruits and vegetables are subject to inspection, 
either in the field or when presented for shipment, as the inspector may 
require, but unless found by him to be infested shall be free to move 
without certification, marking, treatment, or other requirements of this 
subpart, except that they must be free from plant litter and soil: 
Provided, That if the inspector shall find any field, grove, lot, 
shipment, or container of such fruits and vegetables infested with 
injurious insects, he shall notify the owner or person in charge, in 
writing, of the existence of the infestation and the extent thereof, and 
thereafter movement of the fruit or vegetable so specified shall be 
prohibited while the infestation persists, unless in the judgment of the 
inspector movement may be safely

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allowed subject to certification after having been given an approved 
treatment, or after sorting, conditioning, or other effective safeguard 
measures:

Algarroba pods (Hymenaea courbaril).
Allium spp. (onion, chive, garlic, leek, scallion, shallot).
Anise (Pimpinella anisum).
Apio, celery root (Arracacia xanthorrhiza).
Arrowroot (Maranta arundinacea).
Artichoke, Jerusalem (Helianthus tuberosus).
Asparagus.
Avocado.
Balsamapple, balsam-pear (Momordica balsamina; M. charantia).
Banana and plantain (fruit).
Banana leaves (fresh, without stalks or midrib).
Beans (fresh shelled lima and faba beans).
Beet, including Swiss chard.
Brassica oleracea (cabbage, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, 
collard, kale, kohlrabi, Savoy).
Breadfruit, jackfruit (Artocarpus spp.).
Cacao bean (Theobroma cacao).
Carrot.
Celery.
Chayote (Sechium edule).
Chicory, endive (Cichorium intybus).
Citrus fruit (citron, grapefruit, lemon, lime, and orange) destined for 
ports on the Atlantic seaboard north of and including Baltimore.
Cucumbers, including Angola cucumber (Sicania odorata).
Culantro, coriander (Eryngium foetidum; Coriandrum sativum).
Dasheen, malanga, taro (Colocasia and Caladium spp.).
Eggplant.
Fennel.
Ginger root (Zingiber officinale).
Horseradish (Armoracia).
Kudzu (Pueraria thunbergiana).
Lerens, sweet corn root (Calathea allouia).
Lettuce.
Mangosteen (Garcinia mangostana).
Mustard greens.
Palm hearts.
Papaya, lechosa (Carica papaya).
Parsley.
Parsnip.
Peas (in pod) (Pissum sativum).
Pigeonpea (fresh shelled).
Pineapple.
Potato.
Quenepa (Melicocca bijuga).
Radish.
Rhubarb.
Rutabaga.
Spinach.
Squash, pumpkin, watermelon, vegetable-marrow, cantaloup, calabaza.
Strawberry.
Tamarind beanpod (Tamarindus indica).
Tomato.
Turnip.
Watercress.
Waterlily root, lotus root (Nelumbium nelumbo).
Yam, name (Dioscorea spp.).
Yautia, tanier (Xanthosoma spp.).
Yuca, cassava (Manihot esculenta).

    (3) Cactus plants or parts thereof from the Virgin Islands of the 
United States may be moved to Guam, Puerto Rico, or the continental 
United States when they have been given an approved treatment and are so 
certified by an inspector.

[24 FR 10777, Dec. 29, 1959, as amended at 28 FR 13281, Dec. 7, 1963; 30 
FR 749, Jan. 23, 1965; 36 FR 24917, Dec. 24, 1971. Redesignated and 
amended at 54 FR 3580, Jan. 25, 1989; 55 FR 5436, Feb. 15, 1990]