The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes Jan. 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 Jan. 8 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. 5 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.
CBP summarized the new features added to the Automated Commercial Environment after the most recent deployment on Jan. 3. The update includes new capabilities for manifest, cargo release, accounts and revenue and exports, CBP said in a CSMS message (here). CBP also added features "in support of the integration of Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) into the Single Window," it said.
The Agriculture Department should keep in place a ban on fresh beef imports from northern Argentina and Uruguay, as well as ovine meat from Uruguay, over foot and mouth disease (FMD) concerns, said several U.S. producers in comments to the agency’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). The comment period expired on Dec. 29, following an October request (see 1410300005).
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 is amending its khapra beetle regulations to update the products and countries for which importation is prohibited to prevent spread of the grain pest, in an interim final rule that takes effect Dec. 29 (here). Changes include the addition of Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, South Sudan, and the West Bank to the areas where the khapra beetle is present, and the removal of the list of affected countries from the regulations to the APHIS website (here). The interim final rule makes changes to prohibited products, including expanding restrictions on importation of goatskins, lambskins and sheepskins to all affected countries, and removing a blanket restriction on importation of brassware and wooden screens from Bombay, India. It also restricts importation of whole chilies, whole red peppers, and cumin seeds in jute or burlap bags from all affected countries. Comments on the interim final rule are due Feb. 27.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes Dec. 19-22 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.
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CBP has plans to start at least six more Participating Government Agency pilot programs in 2015 to test interoperability with the Automated Commercial Environment, according to an agency schedule for the pilots (here). Previously announced pilots set to begin in 2015 are an Environmental Protection Agency test for Notices of Arrival for pesticides and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration declaration, it said. The other pilot programs set for 2015 are: