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Selling Japanese and Chinese citrus varieties
vnomonee:
Luis it sounds like you have great varieties. I don't think the members are saying you aren't trustworthy, it is just equally important to follow the quarantine and photosanitary laws.
Take this as an example someone imported decorative stones or the story goes- something innocent- from China and introduced the invasive laternyfly from egg cases that were on the stone. Now this pest has virtually no predators on the east coast USA and is having a great time multiplying. It is better to be cautious than pay for it later.
a_Vivaldi:
--- Quote from: Luisport on October 17, 2025, 07:27:18 AM ---Hello everyone! Im anouncing that me and my chinese partner we are selling Japanese and Chinese citrus varieties. They are true and not from seed. For any informations please contact me.
Best regards for everyone!
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Hi Luis!
I'm very sorry to have to say this, but what you are planning is illegal both in the US and in the EU. There are very harsh fines and the authorities will shut down your business when they find out about these citrus imports.
Please do not attempt it, the authorities are very strict and you will get in a lot of legal trouble.
Peep:
--- Quote from: Luisport on October 19, 2025, 09:30:01 AM ---
--- Quote from: CarolinaZone on October 19, 2025, 09:11:02 AM ---How do you guarantee the cultivars are true to type?
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Thank you very much for your message. Yes i totally garantee because i know my partner and totally trust him. He just buys from producers he knows that have true and healthy trees.
By the way i can share a bit of my story with my partner. I start to be a costumer as any other, buying from him at least since 3 years ago. I saw how he behaved as a seller, how everything goes with my trees, etc. With time we start to totally trust each other, he start to hask me advices, etc. We got real close friends and share our particular life sharing family pics etc. Later we start to talk on developing our mutual trust to turn on business partners.
This is our story. I continue to get a lot of trees from him to grow my particular collection, but im really happy to helping him selling his trees and developing this business. People in west don't imagine what fruit tree chinese market is... they have everything! They have what we still don't imagine here, from citrus to temperate and all tropicals possible! Im really happy on doing this! I have citrus growing on my land that are still unknown in west... this tells everything!
Best regards, Luis
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You write that you have bought many plants from him over the past few years. But I have not seen you mention that you tested them for CTV when you got them?
You mezntion that you trust him, but even from "trusted" nurseries in Europe I have received CTV positive plants, so to me it would make no sense if you get plants all the way from China and then not even test them?
Or have you tested them?
Besides this, I agree with averyone that you should not do, or offer to do, anything illegal. If you offer phytosanitary passport only as an option, because it's expensive and not everyone wants to pay for that, you are still offering to sell plants without phytosanitary test. So it's still wrong and illegal to offer that.
If you want to do any business I would recommend to only sell fruits. Or possibly seeds. Not sure if shipping seeds from China is legal or not (I'm afraid it's not), but I think your friend could maybe ship fruits to you, then you take the seeds out and then offer the seed.
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