The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is to allow imports of Haas avocados from Colombia into the continental U.S., subject to certain conditions, it said (here). Under the proposed rule, eligibility requirements would include monitoring of places of production and packinghouses; pest-free places of production; grove sanitation, monitoring and pest control practices; lot identification; and inspection for quarantine pests in Colombia. Haas avocados from Colombia would also have to be accompanied by a phytosanitary certificate from the Colombian government, APHIS said. Comments are due Dec. 27.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is amending its regulations to clarify certificate requirements for exports of animals (other than livestock), animal semen, animal embryos, hatching eggs, other embryonated eggs or gametes, in a final rule (here). If the importing country requires “an export health certificate endorsed by the competent veterinary authority of the United States,” these products will only be eligible for export if they have an export health certificate endorsed by APHIS, the agency said. Its recently amended regulations only specified that the export health certificate be endorsed by the “competent veterinary authority” of the U.S. (see 1601200011), causing some confusion over which U.S. agency must endorse it, APHIS said.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes Oct. 18-19 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 Oct. 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 Oct. 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 Oct. 12 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.
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The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes Sept. 30 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 allow for several "interim" measures for filing electronic Lacey Act information in ACE for goods leaving Foreign Trade Zones, the agency said in a letter to the National Association of Foreign-Trade Zones. The interim measures are necessary because the electronic CBP Form 214 (e214) system, used to provide data for Partner Government Agencies on goods admitted into an FTZ, won't be "fully integrated for PGA data until 2017," APHIS Administrator Kevin Shea said in a Sept. 7 letter to the NAFTZ. Entry/entry summaries for entry type 06 were required to be filed in ACE as of May 28, but the requirement won't be enforced until after Nov. 28 (see 1608190035).
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes Sept. 29 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.