General quarantine regulations, October 2013

The Règlements généraux de la quarantaine issued by the Ministère de l'Agriculture, des Ressources Naturelles et du Développement Rural in October 2013.

Quarantine regulations are the working rules of a phytosanitary and zoosanitary border: what may be imported, under what certificate, what is inspected, what is treated and what is refused entry. For Haiti the question runs both ways. Imports of plant and animal material carry pest and disease risk into a country whose agriculture has little surveillance capacity, and exports of mango, avocado and other horticultural produce reach regulated markets only if the exporting country's inspection regime is one the importing authority accepts.

The corpus holds the 1936 decree sanctioning the Rome convention on plant protection, the 2017 pest and pesticide management plan and the agricultural trade material that turns on phytosanitary capacity. These regulations connect the treaty obligation to the inspector at the port.