The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes March 1 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.
CBP released several documents outlining the agency's plans and expectations for operations following the budget cuts that took effect March 1. The agency will allow for operations as usual for Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) and the Air Cargo Advance Screening (ACAS), the agency said. CBP has said it will continue to keep security, including radiation portal monitors, as a top priority during the cuts, but that trade processing could see major delays as a result of CBP furlough and cuts to overtime expenses. A list of CBP's trade priorities following sequestration is (here).
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes Feb. 28 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 Feb. 27 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 planned budget cuts of sequestration set to hit the U.S. government March 1 will likely slow down the processing of ruling requests from those involved in international trade, said Al Gina, assistant commissioner in the CBP Office of International Trade. Gina spoke Feb. 28 at the International Consumer Product Health and Safety Organization conference in Arlington, Va. CBP has previously said it expects some slowdown to trade processing at the border and potentially some cutbacks on intellectual property rights enforcement and its efforts toward the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) as a result of sequestration.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes Feb. 26 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 Feb. 25 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 will begin issuing permits for importation of fresh strawberries from Egypt to the continental U.S., subject to certain conditions, it said in a Federal Register notice set for publication Feb. 27. To mitigate the risk of pest or weed introduction, the fruit may be imported in commercial consignments only, and will be subject to inspection at the U.S. port of entry. Each consignment will also have to be inspected by Egypt’s national plant protection organization, and be accompanied by a phytosanitary certificate declaring the inspection found the strawberries free of Chrysodeixis chalcites, Eutetranychus orientalis, and Spodoptera littoralis.
The Office of U.S. Trade Representative is seeking comments on Argentina's creation of a WTO dispute settlement panel over U.S. restrictions on importing fresh beef from Argentina, a Feb. 22 Federal Register notice said. Argentina launched a WTO dispute over U.S. import restrictions in August 2012 (see ITT's Online Archives 12083117). The WTO formed a panel to decide the dispute in January (see ITT's Online Archives 13013032).
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes Feb. 20 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.