The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes Feb. 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 Mexican state of Sonora is free of cattle fever ticks, so live cattle and other ruminants imported from Sonora will no longer be subject to acaricide dipping requirements, said the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service in a final rule that takes effect March 30. Acaricide dipping documentation requirements required to import live cattle and other ruminants from Sonora are also being eliminated, said APHIS.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is proposing sweeping changes to its regulations on the export of live animals, hatching eggs, and animal germplasm. The proposed rule (here) would “remove most of the requirements for export health certifications, tests, and treatments from the regulations, and instead would direct exporters to follow the requirements of the importing country regarding such processes and procedures,” said APHIS. Export health certificate requirements would be maintained for livestock, and would be required for eggs and germplasm if mandated by the importing country. APHIS would also allow, in some cases, pre-export inspection to occur at facilities other than an export inspection facility at the port of export. Comments on the proposed rule are due April 27.
On Feb. 18 the Foreign Agricultural Service posted the following GAIN reports:
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes Feb. 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 is proposing to open up the U.S. to Hass avocados from all of Mexico, in a Feb. 18 Federal Register notice. Currently, only Hass avocados from the Mexican state of Michoacan are eligible for entry into the United States. Under the APHIS proposal, the same requirements applicable to avocados from Michoacan would be extended to all states in Mexico, said APHIS. As the only other Mexican state that currently meets the import standards, Jalisco would be the first state that would be eligible to export Hass avocados to the U.S. under the proposal, it said. Comments on the proposed rule are due April 20.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service recently announced a ban on the importation of apples, citrus, and Capsicum peppers from Guyana, in a Federal Order dated Feb. 6 (here). Effective March 8, the ban is meant to prevent the spread of the carambola fruit fly, it said.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes Feb. 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.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes Feb. 10 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 transition of cargo release to the Automated Commercial Environment in November is going to be marked by a transition period that will require some heavy lifting from the trade community, said CBP officials at a National Association Foreign-Trade Zones (NAFTZ) seminar on Feb. 10. While CBP hopes to get everyone to the point where they can exchange electronic messages, it remains to be decided how automation will work at the operational level for entities like terminal operators, truck drivers, and container freight stations that currently stamp paper, said James Swanson, CBP director-cargo security and controls.