The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is proposing to allow the importation of lemons from northwest Argentina into the continental U.S. (here), subject to certain conditions including production requirements and a phytosanitary certificate. Lemons would also have to be harvested green or treated for Medfly, said APHIS. Comments are due July 11.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes May 2 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 April 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 April 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.
The House Appropriations Committee’s fiscal 2017 agriculture appropriations bill directs the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service by March 2017 to provide the panel with a report comparing overseas market access allowances for U.S. agriculture products with U.S. market allowances of agriculture imports, according to the committee report of the legislation (here). The APHIS study would also be required to contain information on U.S. export volumes and the quantity and timing of each pending market access request. “Increasingly, U.S. agriculture is facing non-tariff trade barriers, which are limiting the ability for U.S. agriculture to open and maintain access to key export markets,” the committee report says. “The Committee directs APHIS to review and update the list of foreign market access requests submitted by U.S. producers, producer groups, companies and/or non-government agencies.”
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes April 18 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 April 15 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 is extending the period for comments until May 5 on its recent proposal to allow imports of fresh apples and pears from Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Spain, and the Netherlands without going through an ongoing preclearance program, it said (here). The fruit would have to be produced under a systems approach consisting of production site and packinghouse registration, inspection of registered production sites, postharvest safeguards, fruit culling, traceback, sampling, cold treatment against Mediterranean fruit fly in countries where the pest is known to occur, a phytosanitary certificate, port of entry inspection, and importation as commercial consignments only, said APHIS in the Jan. 20 proposed rule (see 1601190046).
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes April 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 April 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.