CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP announced the results of recent global interoperability standards technology demonstrations, saying that the results will help the agency in its efforts to modernize ACE 2.0 and make it consistent with CBP's 21st Century Customs Framework.
USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service said over the weekend that it is now allowing cattle and bison imports from Mexico after the agency halted imports in November 2024 when it detected the presence of new world screwworm (NWS) in southern Mexico.
CBP created Harmonized System Update 2504 on Jan. 24, containing four Automated Broker Interface (ABI) records and one Harmonized Tariff Schedule record. In support of the Participating Government Agency message set, PGA flag indicator AL1 for APHIS was updated.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service last week updated requirements pertaining to the import of fresh bell peppers (Capsicum annuum) from Spain as part of a broader effort to prevent the introduction of the Mediterranean fruit flies (Ceratitis capitata or Medfly).
USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is reducing trade restrictions on unvaccinated live poultry imports from France and unvaccinated live ducks from the European Poultry Trade (EPTR) region and from the countries of Iceland, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Norway, it said in a Jan. 16 release.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service will be ensuring that imports of horses, ruminants, swine and dogs from certain Central American countries are not carrying screwworm, a type of pest.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is seeking comment on a pest risk analysis that it has made on the risks associated with importing fresh rhizomes of wasabi, Eutrema japonicum (Miq.) Koidz. (Brassicaceae), for consumption from Indonesia into the U.S., it said in a Federal Register notice.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters: