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.
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).