Can you freely legally send soil internationally without having to get some kind of permit or something?

I'm from Ireland. A distant relative of mine died in America, I didn't know him, just kinda knew of him. Anyway, his great grandparents emigrated from Ireland years ago, and settled in America.

My dad is a farmer, and this man's family know this, so they asked him to send some soil over to them so they can toss it on the casket, as a kind of symbolic thing(!!!).

I was just wondering, could you send some soil to a different country freely, without declaring it, or could there be a problem, I don't know, like because of environmental protection issues or something?!?!

I know this question might sound a bit weird, but I don't want to be arrested or anything for sending something into a country thats not meant to be there!!!

The regulations vary from country to country. For example i know that if we import soil from Indonsia it has to be accompanied with certificates for insect and wood-rot infestation - one of the biggest dangers are termite eggs - undectable by the human eye yet totally devasting to buildings.
For the US its a nightmare as the soil has to be free of all of items listed here http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/operat...

You can't legally send it, but my advise would be, sterilise a quantity by baking it in a hot oven, put it into a couple of DVD cases and wrap up firmly. For the customs label sign it off as DVDs, no monetary value. You will probably get away with that. Illegal I know, but what the heck, it's humanitarian.

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