APHIS Proposes to Allow Imports of Kiwi From Chile

The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is asking for comments by Dec. 15 on a proposal to allow importation of kiwi fruit from Chile. Under the agency’s proposed rule, kiwis would have to be grown at a farm registered with the Chilean government and certified to have a low prevalence of Brevipalpus chilensis. The fruit would then have to be inspected and issued a phytosanitary certificate that it has been found free of the Brevipalpus chilensis.