Certificate Types

Certificate Type	Used For	Available At
PPQ Form 577	US origin commodities going to a foreign consignee or a foreign origin commodity lacking a foreign phytosanitary certificate.	All PPQ offices or check with individual state/county agriculture department.
PPQ Form 579	Foreign origin commodities reexported from the US to a foreign consignee. NOTE: To be eligible for a PPQ Form 579 a foreign phytosanitary certificate must be presented. If a foreign phytosanitary certificate is not available the user should apply for a PPQ Form 577.	All PPQ offices or check with individual state/county agriculture department.
State Certificate	Interstate movement of commodities. NOTE: Foreign consignees can be used when the certificate will be converted to a federal certificate at a PPQ duty station (e.g., handling CITES).	California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Texas, Utah and Wisconsin State offices.

The PPQ Form 579, Phytosanitary Certificate for Reexport, is an accountable inspection certificate used to certify foreign plants and unprocessed or unmanufactured plant products for reexport. It certifies that, based on the original foreign phytosanitary certificate and/or an additional inspection, the plants or plant products officially entered the United States, are considered to conform to the current phytosanitary regulations of the importing country, and have not been subjected to the risk of infestation of infection during storage in the United States. PCIT also supports the automation of serialization; creation, approval, and printing of Phytosanitary Certificates for reexport form 579. In addition, an attachment function enables documents to be attached to 577 and 579 certificates. You can add, remove, or download the attachments.

State Phytosanitary Certificates enable you to automate the serialization, creation, approval, and printing for State certificates. The State certificates will resemble the Federal Phytosanitary Certificate; however, the title, seal, certification text, warning text, liability statement, and document number if desired, will be state specific. The process to apply for and issue a State certificate will mirror the federal process. No fee will be collected when a State Phytosanitary Certificate is issued. Only State officials will issue a State certificate.

IMPORTANT NOTE: You may enter application information in any order by selecting the links at the left of the screen; for example, you can enter commodity information then general information. In this Help file, data entry into the Application Step by Step pages will be explained sequentially using the Next button.