Department of Agriculture Guidelines

Index

Here’s what you CAN bring back to the United States from Europe



Breads made of seeds
Breads, Cakes, Cookies, and other Bakery Goods
Candies
Cheeses, fully cured (but not cottage cheeses)
Coffee, roasted beans only
Dried Foods, including polished rice, beans, and tea
Fish
Flower Bulbs (but not crocosomia, gladiolus, and watsonia bulbs from France, Italy, Malta, Portugal)
Flowers, most fresh or dried kinds (but not with roots)
Fruits, canned or dried products only
Herbarium Plants (but not witchweed)
Herbs, dried, for medicinal use
Mushrooms
Nuts (but not chestnuts or acorns or nuts with outer husks)
Sauces, canned or processed
Seaweed
Seeds (but not avocado, bamboo, barberry, coconuts, corn, cotton, currant, elm, hibiscus, lentil, mahonia, mango, pearl millet, potato, rice, sorghum, and wheat)
Shamrocks, without roots or soil
Soup and soup mixes (but not those containing meat)
Spices, dried (but not curry leaves)
Straw animals, hats, baskets, and other souvenirs (but not items stuffed with straw)
Vegetables, canned or processed



Here’s what you CANNOT bring back to the United States


No  Fresh  Meat

No  Dried  Meat 

No  Canned  Meat  Products

No  FRESH  Fruits  Of  Any  Kind