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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The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes Dec. 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 Dec. 24 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 Dec. 23 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 Dec. 22 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 on Dec. 16 issued a proposed rule (here) that would overhaul its regulations on the prevention of bovine tuberculosis and brucellosis, including provisions on importation of cattle. Under the proposal, APHIS would scrap the current two-tiered system of general import requirements for most countries and country-specific requirements for Canada, Mexico and Ireland. In its place, the proposed regulations would establish a system that would classify regions of the world based on their prevalence of brucellosis or bovine tuberculosis and whether they have a program for control of the diseases that meets certain standards. Conditions on importation of cattle and bison would correspond to the classification level of the region from where the cattle or bison is exported, ranging from Level I to V for bovine tuberculosis and I to III for brucellosis, said APHIS. The regulations would also establish a process to allow regions to request a particular classification, it said. Comments on the proposed rule are due March 15.