Miscellaneous CBP Releases
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
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- ACE Production standard invasive maintenance, Oct. 18 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. Oct. 19 ET (here).
- CBP Office of Field Operations officers at the Laredo Port of Entry in Texas seized cocaine valued at more than $4.4 million hidden in a tractor trailer. The seizure occurred on Oct. 1 at the World Trade Bridge when a CBP officer referred a 2022 Pinnacle tractor hauling a shipment of trailer parts for secondary inspection (here).
- CBP's Anti-Terrorism Contraband Enforcement Team at the Port of San Juan seized 365 pounds of cocaine worth over $4 million concealed in a cargo container arriving from the Dominican Republic on Oct. 6 (here).
- Agriculture specialists at the Port of San Luis intercepted a pest identified as Osbornellus salus while conducting a routine inspection of a radicchio shipment arriving from Mexico at the Tucson port. A specimen was collected and forwarded to an entomologist at the APHIS Plant Protection and Quarantine. The USDA's National Identification Service confirmed the insect was Osbornellus salsus and verified it as a "first-in-the-nation" interception, CBP said. Osbornellus salsus is a type of leafhopper, an insect that feeds on plants by sucking sap from grasses, trees and shrubs. Some leafhoppers are known to transmit various plant diseases and pathogens, posing a potential threat to U.S. agriculture, according to CBP. In accordance with protocol, the radicchio shipment was safeguarded and returned to Mexico (here).