The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes March 14 to Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) electronic manuals. While some changes are minor, other changes may affect the admissibility of the plant products, including fruits, vegetables, and flowers.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes March 13 to Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) electronic manuals. While some changes are minor, other changes may affect the admissibility of the plant products, including fruits, vegetables, and flowers.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes March 11 to Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) electronic manuals. While some changes are minor, other changes may affect the admissibility of the plant products, including fruits, vegetables, and flowers.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes March 8 to Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) electronic manuals. While some changes are minor, other changes may affect the admissibility of the plant products, including fruits, vegetables, and flowers.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) scheduled a public meeting to discuss the agency's budget and program restructuring for April 11 from 10 a.m. to noon, it said in March 12 Federal Register notice. APHIS seeks to engage with stakeholders over several issues related to the decreasing budgets, it said. Issues include public/private partnerships, non-regulatory solutions and new technologies, it said. APHIS will accept comments through May 13 on the issues mentioned in the notice, it said.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes March 7 to Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) electronic manuals. While some changes are minor, other changes may affect the admissibility of the plant products, including fruits, vegetables, and flowers.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service and CBP should reconsider its maximum Agricultural Quarantine Inspection fees for truck cargo, and APHIS should begin charging fees for treatment, permits, and monitoring services, said the Government Accountability Office. AQI fees don’t currently cover all of the costs of the program, with CBP having to rely on funds from its salaries and expenses budget line to make up the difference, said GAO in its report, “Agricultural Quarantine Inspection Fees.” Other measures that would help include collection of fees for vehicle, bus, vessel, aircraft, and rail passengers, and accurate reporting of AQI-related activities by CBP, the report said.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes March 4 to Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) electronic manuals. While some changes are minor, other changes may affect the admissibility of the plant products, including fruits, vegetables, and flowers.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced new guidelines the agency will use to conduct plant health risk assessments for fruit and vegetable imports. According to APHIS, the new guidelines are needed to incorporate advancements in pest risk assessment methods, provide clearer and more transparent analyses, and streamline the market access analysis process. The guidelines will be available for viewing here.
CBP should plan to pare back $512 million from its FY 2013 budget, according to a recent White House report. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) detailed exactly how the $85 billion in cuts would affect federal agencies following the president's release of the sequestration order March 1. Several agencies that oversee trade issues should expect to reduce their 2013 fiscal year expenditures by 5 percent, the report said.