APHIS to Launch New Online Permitting System for Fruits and Vegetables This Fall
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service will deploy its eFile online permitting system for fresh fruit and vegetable imports “this fall,” it said in an emailed update. The new system “will offer a simple and easy way to apply…
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for and receive your fresh fruit and vegetable import permits, in many cases, within the same day,” APHIS said. Until the new system is up, APHIS will continue issuing fresh fruit and vegetable import permits through ePermits, and will limit the validity of any permits issued after June 1 to one year only to allow for the phaseout of the legacy system. “Unfortunately, we are unable to transfer active permits from one system to the other,” APHIS said. “Once we transition to eFile, stakeholders will be able to renew existing fresh fruit and vegetable import permits or request new ones in eFile. All fresh fruit and vegetable import permits issued from eFile will be valid for 3 years.”