Exporting orchids in sterile flasks to Brazil

[JScott]

My best orchid friend in Brazil, where I spend every summer, desperately wants a plant that I have, and has searched high and low for it in Brazil, and cannot find it. I believe I read somewhere that exporting orchids in sterile flasks is much easier than bringing fully grown plants, but I cannot attest to the accuracy of that. I searched here and couldn't find any information relevant to the specific situation I have in mind.

I would use one of the various labs that offer meristem cloning services to grow me a flask or two of this plant, and then I would hand carry it to Brazil still in the sterile flask on my next trip there. Does anybody know what is involved in that? I can google stuff, but most of what I can find has to do with importing live plants into the US, but I cannot find any information about hand carrying mericlones in sterile flasks from the US to Brazil. Does anybody have any insight on this?