Mexico Joins Chorus of Criticism Over APHIS Quarantine Fee Hikes
The Mexican delegation to the World Trade Organization expressed “concern” over a year-old Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service proposal for new quarantine fees during a WTO committee meeting on sanitary and phytosanitary measures in recent days (here). APHIS proposed…
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the Agricultural Quarantine inspection fee hikes in April 2014, the first increase in nearly a decade (see 14042321). Mexican officials argued the proposal would raise inspection fees by more than 200% for trucks and other modes of transport, the WTO said. The hikes would also violate global sanitary and phytosanitary trade rules, said Mexico, according to the WTO statement. “The US responded that the fee hike was still under review and that it would take into account Mexico's concerns,” the WTO said. Importers and lawmakers have also denounced the hikes (see 1503200029).