Page 55 - Jamaica Post Office Guide 1938

6 0 OVERSEA MAILS: PARCELS, PROHIBITIONS (IMPORT).

and silver in ingots or silver partially worked of a value higher than £20, even if the
shipment of coins or ingots, etc., is made as an insured parcel.
U n i t e d S t a t e s o f A m e r i c a .—Letters; adulterated food and drugs; seed cotton,
cottonseed, and products of cottonseed (except oil, and under certain conditions samples
of raw or unmanufactured ginned cotton, including all forms of cotton-mill waste, and
cottonseed meal and cake); feathers and skins of wild birds (except ostrich feathers)
unless for educational or scientific purposes; films or pictorial representations of prize
fights; live bees; plants, parts of plants (including fresh fruits and vegetables), bulbs,
corms, roots, seeds etc., unless authorized entry by, and addressed to, the United States
Department of Agriculture, but n o restriction is placed on the entry
o f field seeds (except cotton seed and seed or paddy rice),
vegetables and flow er seeds when free from soil, cut flow ers
incapable o f propagation, dried, cured, and p rocessed fruits
and vegetables, nuts f o r fo o d purposes (except unprocessed
a corn s and chestnuts), dried herbs (except dried citrus
materia! o f the tribe citrinae), and dried herbarium sp eci­
mens;* poisons; prison-made goods; spirituous, vinous, fermented, malted and other
intoxicating liquors; stupefying drugs. In addition to the prohibitions and restrictions
applying to plant material as such, the use as packing material is also prohibited of rice
straw, hulls and chaff; cotton and cotton products; sugarcane, including bagasse; and
leaves of all plants.
The importation of the following articles is subject to special restrictions:—arms;
most plants and plant products; seal skin in any form; virus, serums, toxins and
analogous products.
See page 56 in respect of exportation of cigars and cigarettes.
Special Prohibitions (Im port).
Unless previous written permission has been obtained from the Director of Agriculture
of Jamaica, it is prohibited to import into Jamaica by parcel-post mail the following:—
Bees, honey, and material used by bee raisers; boots used previously by workmen on
banana plantations; cotton and all plants of the cotton plant; all plants and varieties of
gossypium; and all other plants originating in any country other
than Great Britain.
The written permit of the Director of Agriculture which takes the form of a label
bearing particulars of the permit and the seal of the Department, must be forwarded
by the importer to the supplier who shall attach it to the package containing the plant
to which the permit relates.
Contagious abortion vaccine, live or dead (organisms of the Brucella group), rabies
vaccine, foot and mouth disease and contagious bovine pleuro-pneumonia vaccine or
antigin.
All specific organisms or agents (of a bacterial, protozoan and virus nature), except rat
viruses, which are known to cause infectious animal disease, save and except in the form of
subtances commonly known as vaccines, ; sera, toxins, antitoxins, and antigens intended
for use in the practice of human or veterniary medicine, provided the said substances
(vaccines, sera toxins, antitoxins and antigens) are imported in a package labelled or
marked distinctly on the outside of the package, “ Biological Products ” and enclosing in
the said package a Declaration from the Exporter or Supplier stating fully the contents
of the said package with a description of the nature of the subst ances therein and an
indication of the maker, place and country in which they were prepared.
Fruits and vegetables (except dried or processed fruits and vegetables, grains, seeds,
and Irish potatoes) are prohibited in the mails to Jamaica from the United States,
unless accompanied by a certificate issued by a representative of the United States
Department of Agriculture attesting that the products are home grown and are the
products of a State in which the Mediterranean fly (Ceratitis captiata), does not exist.
The following articles are absolutely prohibited:—Coffee; rum; shaving brushes manu­
factured in Eastern countries, as well as those exported from those countries; citrus fruits.
It is also prohibited to import Tutaerculozyne o f any other alleged
care f o r co n s u in p tio n ,u n le ss undei license granted by the Governor and subject
to the conditions of such license.
* The entry of the approved plants and plant products of any nature is permitted
only on the condition that the articles concerned are found to be, or can be rendered
apparently, free from injurious insects and diseases. Plant quarantine inspectors in the
United States are permitted to destroy immediately any plants or plant products
deemed injurious to plant life.