The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes Nov. 3 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 Oct. 31 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 Oct. 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 announced changes Oct. 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 reopening the comment period on its Aug. 29 proposed rule to allow the importation of chilled and frozen beef from Northern Argentina (here). The proposal would adopt the requirements currently in place for fresh beef and ovine meat from Uruguay, and would also recognize the Northern Argentina region as free of rinderpest. Comments are now due Dec. 29.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes Oct. 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 regulations on the importation of unshu oranges from Japan to harmonize them with U.S. citrus quarantine regulations (here). The changes remove requirements for unshu oranges from Japan to be grown in specified canker-free export areas with buffer zones, as well as for joint inspection at groves and packinghouses by the government of Japan and APHIS. The agency is also “clarifying” that surface sterilization is required for unshu oranges from Japan, as well as a phytosanitary certificate that says surface sterilization has occurred. The final rule takes effect Nov. 26.
SAN DIEGO, Calif. -- A wide-ranging update to the trade-related regulations of agencies outside CBP may not be possible by the 2016 deadline for completion of the International Trade Data System (ITDS), said CBP Office of International Trade Commissioner Brenda Smith. "People rarely want to change regulations," she said Oct. 17 at the Western Cargo Conference. "My guess is that, there is a lot more work than we are going to be able to get to by 2016," she said. Still, the Border Interagency Executive Council is already discussing ways to make improvements, such as aligning differing definitions between CBP and the Food and Drug Administration for unique identifiers and port facilities, she said.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes Oct. 17 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 is putting together a Lacey Act import working group to consider the technical requirements necessary for the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service to take part in the International Trade Data System, said CBP in a CSMS message. The Lacey Act working group, to be part of the Trade Support Network, "consists of members of the trade whose businesses are regulated by the APHIS Lacey Act Program, trade software developers who support the business processes, as well as representatives from the Lacey Act Program," and CBP, it said. Those interested in participating should email Frank Korpusik at frank.j.korpusik@cbp.dhs.gov by Oct. 24, said CBP.