How to import plant from Thailand?

Thailand has many tropical variety plants. We are the home of most beautiful exotic plants. They are unique and colorful. You can see the plant shop and nursery all over the countries. The most popular plant market is Chatuchak market. It is located in Bangkok. You can go there by Taxi, sky train or subway. Before buying plant, you should ask seller that they could provide you the phytosanitary certificate or not (CITES may require in some varieties).  This certificate is required for shipping plant internationally.

Phytosanitary/ CITES certificate

For the Phytosanitary/ CITES certificate, the seller will be the one who provide it to you. For the process, they will send your plants to the inspector in Bangkok, it will take only 1 day. We can not apply them on the weekend, some countries require special inspection that will take 2-3 more days (The requested inspection will be listed on the import permit).

Plant Import permits

If you buy plant in bulk quantity. It may require in some countries. Please contact your authorities for the details and follow their regulations otherwise you may loss all the plants. For USA, the import permit is not required for under 12 plants.

To getting the permit: You should know the plant scientific name, planting material which the nursery used (In Thailand, we mostly use soil and coconut husk as a planting material) and the arrival date. All your desired plant should be listed in the permit.

Plant should be clean and free from pest and disease

Thai plant nurseries are mostly open system. Please ask them to clean the plant and change the planting material. It should be pest free and no disease. The plants have to be bare root in some countries.

You can pack them in your suitcase. Cover them with paper. Newspaper is recommended. You can easily find them in nearby convenience store. It will absorb the excess water and preventing them from getting rot.

If you don’t want to bring the plant with you. It can be shipped to your destination by the courier or Air cargo service.

If you have any question, please feel free to contact us on Sales@amthaiorchids.com.

We are plant exporter from Thailand. We have been in this business for more than 20 years.

You can order our plants online

Please see the following steps for how to order our plants, we can send them to your hotel address and Suwannabhumi airport with all required documents in your desired date.

Step 1 : See the list of plant in our website: Buy orchid – AmThai Orchids Online – New orchid hybrids

If you are interested in other variety plants from Thailand, Please contact us on Sales@amthaiorchids.com

Step 2 : We will send you the proforma invoice including the shipping charge (Door to door service are available in some countries), For more shipping details, please visit: How are the plants shipped? – AmThai Orchids Online

Step 3 : All plants and freight cost are prepaid.

Step 4 : Contact your authorities for the import permits (Some countries do not require the permits, ex. import less than 12 plants to United States)

Step 5: Please check your country’s regulation of importing goods from Thailand and informs us about their requirement. (ex. no soil/no husk, etc). We will prepare the plants as your request.

Step 6 : We will provide Phytosanitary/CITES certificate for each variety. The endangered or prohibited species can not be export.

Step 7 : We will book the flight for air cargo service. Air-cargo service is the transportation of plants through an air carrier to the available destination airport. The CUSTOMS procedure for importing plants is responsible by the customer.

Step 8 : You will receive the plants in 7-15 days after the payment (It depends on the available flight).