The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes Feb. 9 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.
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The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service will extend by another 60 days the deadline for comments on a proposed change to its procedures for setting fruit and vegetable import requirements, it said in a Federal Register notice (here). Under the proposed rule, issued in September, APHIS would no longer go through a normal rulemaking process for changes to import requirements (see 14090819). Instead, the agency would simply publish a notice in the Federal Register advising the public of the change. APHIS would still give the public a chance to comment before changes are made through publication of a “pest risk analysis” document detailing the agency’s scientific rationale. Comments are now due March 10.
Twenty more tariff lines in chapters 44, 82, 94, and 96 are set to become subject to enforcement of Lacey Act import declaration requirements, as the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service begins the next phase of enforcement in August. The addition of the new tariff lines marks the fifth phase of Lacey Act declaration enforcement, according to an APHIS Federal Register notice (here). APHIS is giving importers six months until Aug. 6 before it begins requiring declarations on the new products. The agency will accept comments until April 7 on the products covered by Phase V, as well as any other tariff lines that should be included. The current list of products set for enforcement beginning on Aug. 6 is as follows:
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes Feb. 2 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. 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).