permits and licenses

[Eric or Pat Metzler]

When importing or exporting, by shipment or US Mail, any insect, alive or
dead, a USFWS form 177 for Customs clearance is also required.   The only
exemption to this is for specimens carried with you as personal luggage.
When I mail specimens abroad, I always attach the form 177 to the outside of
the package in a zip lock baggie so it can be easily read.  When I'm
importing insects, it is my responsibility to send the 177 to the person who
is mailing the insects to me.  Otherwise the shipment can be confiscated and
returned or destroyed.  The US law does not affect the person doing the
shipping, but the law surely affects me as the person in the US wanting to
receive the specimens.


"James J Kruse" <fnjjk1 at aurora.uaf.edu> wrote in message
news:Pine.OSF.4.31.0102131033070.18975-100000 at aurora.uaf.edu...
> On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Ron Gatrelle wrote:
>
> > General. Insects require NO permits to import or export under 50 CFR 14
> > unless CITES endangered under 50 CFR 23 or US endangered 50 CFR 17.
>
> If you are trying to import insect specimens to the U.S., proof of permit
> is required if the country from which the insects are exported has some
> sort of an export permit. It is your responsibility to know this if you
> are importing (to the U.S.) from other countries.
>
> The specimens do not have to be CITES endangered or U.S. endangered. For
> example, if you want to bring in Pieris rapae from Russia, you need a
> Russian export permit or your specimens will be confiscated. It doesn't
> matter if the permit is impossible to get (Russian scientists apparently
> don't even know how to get one). Too bad if the specimens are plainly
> labeled 200 year old type specimens of nothing but scientific value and
> it is obvious that there is no commercial intent. If you try to bring them
> in, they are doomed to be destroyed by dermestid beetles in a
> non-environmentally controlled warehouse while you scramble around trying
> to find a permit or spending years with a lawyer or worse.
>
> If a professional or hunting-style license alleviates this overzealous
> nonsense, then I am all for it.
>
> Regards,
> James J. Kruse, Ph.D.
> Curator of Entomology
> University of Alaska Museum
> 907 Yukon Drive, PO Box 756960
> Fairbanks, AK  99775-6960
> Phone: 907.474.5579
> Fax: 907.474.1987/5469
> http://www.uaf.edu/museum/
>
>
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