On June 15 the Foreign Agricultural Service posted the following GAIN reports:
On June 14 the Foreign Agricultural Service posted the following GAIN reports:
Lacey Act declarations are required "for all formal consumption entries of plant and plant products" into the U.S., "including those entries from foreign trade zones and bonded warehouses," the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service said in a notice (here). There's been confusion over several years as to whether an exemption to the requirements applies to type 06 entries (see 1602180035). The confusion stems from mentions of FTZs within a 2009 Federal Register notice (here) that said it is "not requiring a declaration for informal entries, including most personal shipments, mail, transportation and exportation entries, intransit movements, carnet importations (i.e., merchandise or equipment that will be re-exported within a year), and foreign trade zone and warehouse entries."
On June 10 and 13 the Foreign Agricultural Service posted the following GAIN reports:
Asian Jade Customs Brokerage recalled about 762 pounds of imported sausage products that weren't presented for inspection at entry, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service said in a news release (here). "The problem was discovered by FSIS personnel during routine failure to present shipment monitoring activities and subsequent investigation," the agency said. "There have been no confirmed reports of adverse reactions due to consumption of these products." The products were made in Poland between May 18 and 20 and were shipped to a distributor and retailers in New Jersey and New York, FSIS said.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service posted to its website questions and answers on new Agricultural Quarantine and Inspection (AQI) fees for treatment services (here). APHIS recently set a new $237 fee for fumigation and cold treatment services monitored by the agency, set to be phased in over a period of five years (see 1510260080). The first stage, a fee of $47 for treatment services, took effect on Dec. 28, and the fee is set to increase to $95 in December 2016.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service recently said it is deregulating two pests at the port of entry, after the National Plant Board agreed with its proposals to change their status to non-actionable. The two deregulated pests include (pests marked by an asterisk are still quarantine pests in Hawaii and/or territories):
The Department of Agriculture's Commodity Credit Corporation announced Special Import Quota #18 for upland cotton will be established on June 16, allowing importation of 14,671,661 kilograms (67,386 bales) of upland cotton (here), an increase from the 14,130,218 kilograms (64,899 bales) allowed in last week's quota. It will apply to upland cotton purchased not later than Sept. 13 and entered into the U.S. by Dec. 12. The quota is equivalent to one week's consumption of cotton by domestic mills at the seasonally adjusted average rate for the period February through April, the most recent three months for which data are available.
On June 9 the Foreign Agricultural Service posted the following GAIN reports:
On June 8 the Foreign Agricultural Service posted the following GAIN reports: