CRI/205
WTO/SPS
CR Costa Rica
  • 65 - Agriculture
  • 06 - Live trees and other plants; bulbs, roots and the like; cut flowers and ornamental foliage
2019-02-01
2018-12-14

Plants for planting (except seeds, unrooted cuttings, twigs, tubers, grafts and in vitro plants), with growing medium, of all reported host species from any country in which the presence of Adoretus sinicus (Chinese rose beetle) is reported; HS code: 0602; ICS number: 65.020.20

Proyecto de Resolución plantas para plantar, Adoretus sinicus (Draft resolution on plants for planting, Adoretus sinicus)

The following mandatory phytosanitary measures are established (in addition to existing requirements) for the importation of plants for planting (except seeds, unrooted cuttings, twigs, tubers, grafts and in vitro plants), with growing medium, of all reported host species from any country in which the presence of Adoretus sinicus (Chinese rose beetle) is reported.

a.     Shipments must be free from Adoretus sinicus. (Shipments require an official phytosanitary certificate issued by the country of origin, which indicates, in the section for additional declarations, that they are free from Adoretus sinicus.) 

b.     Shipments will be subject to phytosanitary actions upon arrival in the country.