The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes Jan. 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 is correcting its regulations on travel time allowances for overtime services performed by its employees in Dallas and Houston, in a final rule (here). Rules issued in 2005 had erroneously set the travel time for services performed outside the two metropolitan areas, when they should have applied to services performed within them. The correction takes effect Feb. 3.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes Jan. 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 amending its regulations to allow importation of two unshu orange hybrids from South Korea into the continental U.S., effective Jan. 30 (here). Under the agency’s final rule, the Shiranuhi and Setoka varieties may now be imported subject to the same conditions as those in place for Swingle unshu orange hybrids, which are already eligible for importation. The final rule also stipulates that all types of unshu oranges and unshu orange hybrids may only be imported in commercial consignments.
CBP will add some new supported forms within the third phase of its Document Image System (DIS) pilot in the Automated Commercial Environment, said CBP in a notice (here). DIS allows for electronic submission of documents during the import process required by multiple agencies. The agency began the third phase last year (see 14062419).
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes Jan. 26 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. 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 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 is withdrawing long-delayed regulations that would have prohibited the importation or interstate movement of live fish that are susceptible to viral hemorrhagic septicemia (here). The agency had issued the rule in 2008 to supplant a federal order issued two years earlier in response to outbreaks of the disease in the Great Lakes. APHIS later delayed implementation indefinitely in response to public comments. The agency now says state regulations have rendered the federal order (and interim rule) unnecessary.
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.