# Controlled Import Permits
> **Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service** · Final rule. · Published 2013-05-02 · Effective 2013-06-03 · 78 FR 25565
## Document
- **Document number:** 2013-10385
- **Category:** trade
- **Sub-agency:** Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 78 FR 25565
- **CFR reference:** 7 CFR 319
- **Publication date:** 2013-05-02
- **Effective date:** 2013-06-03
- **USDA docket:** Docket No. APHIS-2008-0055
## Abstract

We are amending the regulations concerning the importation of plants and plant products by establishing the controlled import permit as a single type of authorization for the importation into the United States of otherwise prohibited or restricted plant material for experimental, therapeutic, or developmental purposes. Currently, some sections of the regulations provide for those articles to be imported under a departmental permit, while other sections provide for their importation under administrative instructions or conditions specified by the Administrator or Deputy Administrator. This action will consolidate and harmonize the conditions for obtaining authorization for the importation of otherwise prohibited or restricted plant material for scientific or certain other purposes.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2013/05/02/2013-10385/controlled-import-permits)
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