>The law, in part this states:
 
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 >You can get a copy of the 1922 law from the Library of Congress.
 Better >yet, ask your Congressman for help.
 
Hey, this is the Internet!!
 
Check out http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/7/ch11.html.
 
Specifically, Section 281 states:
 
281. Importation of honeybees and honeybee semen restricted
 
       (a) Honeybees
 
       In order to prevent the introduction and spread of diseases and
       parasites harmful to honeybees, and the introduction of
       genetically undesirable germ plasm of honeybees, the
       importation into the United States of all honeybees is
       prohibited, except that honeybees may be imported into the
       United States - (1) by the United States Department of
       Agriculture for experimental or scientific purposes; (2) from
       countries determined by the Secretary of Agriculture - (A) to
       be free of diseases or parasites harmful to honeybees, and
       undesirable species or subspecies of honeybees; and (B) to have
       in operation precautions adequate to prevent the importation of
       honeybees from other countries where harmful diseases or
       parasites, or undesirable species or subspecies, of honeybees
       exist; or (3) from Canada or Mexico, subject to such terms and
       conditions as the Secretary of Agriculture determines
       appropriate, if the Secretary determines that the region of
       Canada or Mexico from which the honeybees originated is, and is
       likely to remain, free of diseases or parasites harmful to
       honeybees, and undesirable species or subspecies of honeybees.
 
       (b) Honeybee semen
 
       Honeybee semen may be imported into the United States only from
       (1) countries determined by the Secretary of Agriculture to be
       free of undesirable species or subspecies of honeybees, and
       which have in operation precautions adequate to prevent the
       importation of such undesirable honeybees and their semen, or
       (2) Canada or Mexico, if the Secretary of Agriculture
       determines that the region of Canada or Mexico from which the
       imports originate is, and is likely to remain, free of
       undesirable species or subspecies of honeybees.
 
       (c) Rules and regulations
 
       Honeybees and honeybee semen imported pursuant to subsections
       (a) and (b) of this section shall be imported under such rules
       and regulations as the Secretary of Agriculture and the
       Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe.  (d) Destruction or
       immediate exportation of nonexcepted honeybees or honeybee
       semen offered for import or intercepted
 
       Except with respect to honeybees and honeybee semen imported
       pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) of this section, all
       honeybees or honeybee semen offered for import or intercepted
       entering the United States shall be destroyed or immediately
       exported.
 
       (e) ''Honeybee'' defined
 
       As used in this chapter, the term ''honeybee'' means all life
       stages and the germ plasm of honeybees of the genus Apis,
       except honeybee semen.
 
 
 
 
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