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Originally Posted by asacomm
Hello Chong again,
You are absolutely right in what you are thinking and doing, and I also have
no intention to do any tricky procesures regarding the import restrictions of
banana pups.
So in case you find regal effective procesures or something else, please do
tell me for my restart of this issue.
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I will keep you posted. For the moment, though, I would have to hold off the importation of the plants. I just came back from the USDA office here, and spoke to three officers. They all told me that ONLY a government certificate is acceptable. However, they told me to contact the USDA office in Washington, DC, and request more information in regards to any alternate proposals. This would prolong the procedures, and possibly take months, if no years, to sort out.
I could potentially arrange to have them shipped to another intermediate country, then get it inspected there and obtain a phytosanitary certificate, and have them re-packaged and re-shipped here. But, realistically, even this will take months to achieve.
Many of the other scenarios that the senior officer discussed with require enormous amount of time and money to accomplish. With just the money involved, we could get 4 or 5 times the number of CA Gold or CA Hardy, for every Pahari Kela.