I'm from Ireland. A distant relative of mine died in America, I didn't know him, just kinda knew of him. Anyway, his great grandparents emigrated from Ireland years ago, and settled in America.
My dad is a farmer, and this man's family know this, so they asked him to send some soil over to them so they can toss it on the casket, as a kind of symbolic thing(!!!).
I was just wondering, could you send some soil to a different country freely, without declaring it, or could there be a problem, I don't know, like because of environmental protection issues or something?!?!
I know this question might sound a bit weird, but I don't want to be arrested or anything for sending something into a country thats not meant to be there!!!
2007-07-25 02:42:03 · 2 answers · asked by Touchè 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
The regulations vary from country to country. For example i know that if we import soil from Indonsia it has to be accompanied with certificates for insect and wood-rot infestation - one of the biggest dangers are termite eggs - undectable by the human eye yet totally devasting to buildings.
For the US its a nightmare as the soil has to be free of all of items listed here http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/operations_support/labs_scientific_svcs/technical_documents/lab_methods/chap_25.xml
2007-07-25 02:56:07 · answer #1 · answered by jeff hall 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't legally send it, but my advise would be, sterilise a quantity by baking it in a hot oven, put it into a couple of DVD cases and wrap up firmly. For the customs label sign it off as DVDs, no monetary value. You will probably get away with that. Illegal I know, but what the heck, it's humanitarian.
2007-07-25 02:53:19 · answer #2 · answered by tucksie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋