The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service on Jan. 20 issued a final rule that removes requirements for exporting of live animals, hatching eggs, and animal germplasm. The final rule (here) eliminates "most of the requirements for export health certifications, tests, and treatments from the regulations," instead "directing exporters to follow the requirements of the importing country regarding such processes and procedure,” said APHIS. Export health certificate requirements remain in place for livestock, and for eggs and germplasm if mandated by the importing country. APHIS will also allow, in some cases, pre-export inspection to occur at facilities other than an export inspection facility at the port of export. The final rule takes effect Feb. 19.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is proposing 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.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes Jan. 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 Jan. 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 Jan. 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.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes Jan. 8-11 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 will again allow imports of certain fruits and vegetables from most of the Dominican Republic, subject to measures to prevent the introduction of the Mediterranean fruit fly (medfly), it said (here). Imports of fruits and vegetables including citrus fruits, peppers, grapes and papayas had been prohibited since March (see 1503180017 and 1504290024). The ban remains in place for provinces in the eastern Dominican Republic, including Distrito Nacional, El Seibo, Hato Mayor, La Altagracia, La Romana, Monte Plata, Samana, San Pedro de Macoris and Santo Domingo. Fruits and vegetables from all other provinces of the Dominican Republic may be imported into the U.S. as long as they are moved in exclusionary containers and accompanied by phytosanitary certificates.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
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