Information for visitors from Republic of Paraguay
When you carry plants or plant products in your baggage or hand luggage, you are requested to declare to the plant quarantine counter in the custums clearance area of the port of entry into Japan.
Quick chart for the plants subject to import prohibition
The plants in the columns of 'Prohibited Plants' are prohibited entry into Japan because they are hosts of the pest shown in the columns of 'Quarantine Pests'.
In addition, articles such as quarantine pests, parasitic plants, soil or plants attached with soil are prohibited entry into Japan.

Prohibited Plants

Quarantine Pests

Live vines, leaves, tuberous roots, and other underground portions of plants of the genera Ipomoea, Pharbitis, and Calystegia. Live tuberous roots and other underground portions of cassava.

Sweet potato weevil
(Cylas formicarius )

Live vines, leaves, tuberous roots and other underground portions of plants of the genera Ipomoea, Pharbitis, and Calystegia.

West Indian sweet potato weevil
(Euscepes postfasciatus )

Rice plants , rice straw (including rice straw bags, mats, and other rice straw goods similar thereof ), unhulled rice and rice hull.

Rice stem nematode
(Ditylenchus angustus ), Trichoconis caudata, Balansia oryzae, and other quarantine pests not existing in Japan.

Quick chart for the plants subject to growing site inspection in exporting countries
The plants in 'Plants' column are required to have phytosanitary inspection in the field in exporting countries during the growing period for freedom of the pest given in 'Quarantine pests' column.

Plants

Quarantine Pests

None

None
 
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