APHIS Allows Imports of Citrus Fruits From China
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is authorizing importation of five types of citrus fruits from China, it said in a notice. Effective April 15, APHIS will begin issuing permits for importation of Chinese pummelo, Nanfeng honey mandarin, ponkan,…
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sweet orange, and Satsuma mandarin. APHIS will require a “systems approach” that includes “importation in commercial consignments only, registration of places of production and packinghouses, certification that the fruit is free of quarantine pests, trapping program for fruit flies, periodic inspections of places of production, grove sanitation, and post-harvest disinfection and treatment,” the agency said in an emailed bulletin.