The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes April 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 announced changes April 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.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is again opening the border to imports of Hass avocados and green tomatoes from the Dominican Republic, the agency said in a federal order issued April 28 that takes immediate effect (here). In March, the agency prohibited imports of avocados and tomatoes, along with other fruits and vegetables including citrus fruits, peppers, grapes and papayas, after detecting Mediterranean fruit flies (medfly) in the country (see 1503180017). APHIS will again allow imports of Hass avocados and green tomatoes after finding neither is a medfly host. Imports of all other types of avocados are still prohibited, and the Dominican Republic Ministry of Agriculture must certify that tomatoes imported from the country are harvested green.
CBP plans to provide an outline of cargo release processes within the Automated Commercial Environment on May 15, said Steve Hilsen, lead executive of the Single Window Program Office at CBP. Hilsen and ACE Business Office Acting Director Deborah Augustin spoke about Single Window progress at the National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America conference on April 22 in Orlando, Florida. Most of the Partner Government Agency functionalities will begin production as of June 27, though there will be some delay in adding non-Lacey Act capabilities for Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Hilsen said. A CBP presentation included a number of "key dates" in preparation of the Nov. 1 requirement for electronic summary and entry filing in ACE (here).
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes April 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.
Holders of PPQ 546 post entry quarantine (PEQ) permits that expire soon need to prepare to change the way they import some plants, said the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service in a message to stakeholders sent April 24 (here). Since the 2013 publication of the Not Authorized Pending Pest Risk Analysis (NAPPRA) Round 1 list (see 13041731 and the Controlled Import Permit (CIP) rules (see 13050109, the following changes are in effect, said APHIS:
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is proposing to allow the importation of fresh Andean blackberry and raspberry fruit from Ecuador into the continental U.S. (here). Requirements for importation would include a pest-free production site within a certified low pest prevalence area for fruit flies, monitoring, and trapping. Comments are due June 23.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is proposing to allow imports of fresh peppers from Peru (here) and Ecuador (here). Under the proposed rule for Peru, common chili pepper (Capsicum annuum L.), aji pepper (Capsicum baccatum L.), habanero chili (Capsicum chinense Jacq.), Thai pepper (Capsicum frutescens L.), and rocoto (Capsicum pubescens Ruiz & Pav.) would be allowed into the continental U.S. and its territories (Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands). For Ecuador, the common bell pepper (Capsicum annuum L.), locoto pepper (Capsicum baccatum L.), habanero pepper (Capsicum chinense Jacq.), tabasco pepper (Capsicum frutescens L.), and manzano pepper (Capsicum pubescens Ruiz & Pav.) would be allowed into the entire United States. Peppers from both countries would be subject to conditions including fruit fly trapping, pre-harvest inspections, production sites, and packinghouse procedures designed to exclude quarantine pests. Comments on both proposed rules are due June 23.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service will allow imports of papayas from Peru, it said in a final rule that takes effect May 26 (here). Conditions for importation include requirements for approved production locations; field sanitation; hot water treatment; procedures for packing and shipping the papayas; and fruit fly trapping in papaya production areas, said APHIS.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service will allow imports of fresh apples from China effective May 25, it said in a final rule (here). Importation will be subject to conditions, including registration of places of production and packinghouses, inspection for pests, bagging of fruit, and labeling and phytosanitary certificate requirements, said APHIS. Fresh apples from areas where the Oriental fruit fly exists will also have to undergo fumigation and refrigeration treatment. The move follows China opening up its own market to U.S. applies in January (see 1501270024).