GUIDELINES FOR EXPORTING PERSONAL USE AG PRODUCTS

MEAT:  A personal consumption quantity of Canadian origin meat under 50 pounds is allowed

            with the following restrictions.

                      

Beef (includes bison*, and veal), Pork, Chicken, or Seafood:  For personal use is allowed.

Domestic lamb and Goat meat:  Domestic Sheep, Lamb or Goat meat are PROHIBITED.
Commercial packaged Elk*, Deer*, Caribou*, or Moose*:  ALLOWED
Hunter-harvested WILD BIRDS*  are allowed entry from all provinces.  Wild Bird sausage

jerky or other wild products are prohibited.

Hunter-harvested WILD or GAME FARM Bison*, Buffalo*, Yak*, Elk*, Deer*,

Caribou*, Moose*, Mountain Goats*, Mountain Sheep*, or Musk Ox*:

ALLOWED with original or copy of valid hunging license or game farm export

permit or other document verifying legal harvest, such as sales receipt or letter from game farm.

from game farm.            

[If Bison, Buffalo, Yak, Musk Ox, Sheep, or Goat then must be free of intact head or heat parts

(brain, eyes, tongue) and viscera (heart, kidney, liver, lymph nodes, pancreas, thymus).]

             *ALL U.S. Fish & Wildlife requirements must be met.

 

PET FOOD:

Pet food manufactured in Canada or the U.S. containing beef, bison, buffalo,
poultry or seafood is allowed.

Pet food manufactured in Canada containing lamb or goat is prohibited.  Pet food
manufactured in the U.S. containing lamb or goat is allowed.

Pet food must be in its ORIGINAL container.  The original packaging can be opened if the pet is

present.  If the pet is not present the original packagina must be unopened.  Maximinum quantity

allowed is 50 pounds.

RICE, SOYBEANS, CHICKPEAS, and SAFFLOWER SEEDS:  
    
Prohibited from Afghanistan, Algeria, Bangladesh, Burma (Myanmar), Cyprus, Egypt, India,   

Iran, Iraq, Isreal, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia,

Senegal, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Turney, United Arab Emirates, and Upper

Volta (Burkina Fasco.)  


FIREWOOD: 

 

Firewood must be accompanied by a certificate of heat treatment.  Importers arriving at ports of

entry without a heat treatment certificate for their Canadian origin firewood will be required
to return to Canada to dispose of their firewood. 
Wood that has been planed and sawed, to be used as firewood does not require
a heat treatment certificate.

 

 

 

Bananas:  Allowed from all of the Americas.

ALL Citrus is PROHIBITED.  This includes oranges, lemons, limes, grapefruit and pumelo.

Melons (including cantaloupe, watermelon, honedew and other varieties):  Allowed

All other fruit must be proven Canadian or U.S. origin:  Examples of proof of origin include:

(1) apples with attached B.C. or Washington stickers (or stickers from other U.S. states
or Canadian provinces)
(2) fresh fruit in bags with the words "Produce of USA" or "Grown in Canada" (or similar

wording)
(3) "in-season" Canadian fruit, such as apples, pears, grapes, nectarines, peaches, plums etc.

produced in the fruit-growing regions of British Columbia or other provinces that may have been

purchased at a road-side fruit stand.  Proof of origin may include a sales receipt for
locally grown fruit. Additional questioning may be needed to confirm fruit was grown
by an individual (backyard and gardenfruit).  No Fresh Cherries from Ontario.

FRESH VEGETABLES:

Corn-on-the-cob:  Corn grown in British Columbia is allowed regardless of destination. 
Corn Grown in all other provinces, including "Taber" corn, is allowed only to states
OTHER THAN Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico,
Oregon, Utah, or Washington (unless accompanied by a phytosanitary sertificate)

Potatoes:  Must be free from soil and commercially packaged.  May not exceed 50 pounds.

Home-grown, backyard or garden grown potatoes are PROHIBITED.    

No fresh, green onions, leeks, or chives:  All other root crop plants (carrots, radhishes,
turnips, rutabagas) must be clean and free of soil.

Tomatoes and peppers are PROHIBITED, unless cut up OR provin U.S. origin.

Other vegetables grown in Canada or the U.S. are allowed.

 

 

All plants (including houseplants, bedding plants, or trees from Canada) require a Phytosanitary

Certificate issued by the Canadian food Inspection Agency (CFIA). 
(This requirement does not apply to housplants transiting Canada from Alaska)

 

WHEN IN DOUBT, PLEASE ASK MORE QUESTIONS, READ LABELS, OR CONTACT AQI OFFICERS.
AQI officers are available 0600-1700 hours, 7 days a week.