Import Permits

The importation of some live animals, foodstuff, plant and plant materials, and veterinary vaccines requires an import permit (view list below) from the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and is subjected to inspection at the time of importation by quarantine inspectors from the Belize Agriculture and Health Authority (BAHA). BAHA is a statutory body mandated to ensure animal and plant health, bio and food safety and quarantine inspection upon imports.

IMPORT PERMIT REQUIREMENT
LIST OF GOODS REQUIRING QUARANTINE INSPECTION UPON IMPORTATION

  • Live Plants - Includes trees, shrubs, herbaceous plants root, and bulbs
  • Fruits and vegetables - Fresh, canned or processed.
  • Live animals
  • Animal Products and subproducts - Fresh, frozen, smoked canned cured dried or salted meat, meat meal, hams, turkeys, sausages, bacon, lard, oil and derivatives, blood and derivatives, meat and bone meal, hooves, skull bone for trophies or musiums, hides, skin, wool, hair bristle or feather, semen, milk and milk products, butter, cheese, eggs.
  • Nursery stock and cuttings
  • Cut flowers
  • Grains - wheat, rice, corn sorghum
  • Seeds
  • Legumes - Beans peas
  • Cultural and Biological organism e.g. insects
  • Spices
  • Nuts - peanuts, almonds
  • Herbs
  • Soil - rocks, minerals
  • Packing material - straw, hull, hay, stalk, and stems
  • Used Vehicles - imported by sea
  • Fertilizer - organic or inorganic
  • Lumber
  • Animal feed
  • Veterinary Biological Products - Vaccines, serums antigen, hormones and enzymes

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