Dairy TRQs
The Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service has extended from April 8 to April 23 the deadline for public comments on a proposed rule that would make a number of amendments to the regulation that provides for the issuance of annual licenses to import certain dairy articles under tariff-rate quotas. Click here for more details on the proposed changes.
Poultry
Effective March 29, the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service imposed the following restrictions on imports of avian commodities from the sanitary control zone of the Maule region in Chile due to concerns about highly-pathogenic avian influenza.
- Importation of poultry, commercial birds, ratites, and avian hatching eggs is prohibited.
- Importation as cargo of processed avian products and byproducts must be accompanied by an APHIS import permit and/or government certification confirming that the goods were treated in accordance with APHIS requirements.
- Importation as cargo of unprocessed avian products and byproducts (including eggs and egg products and meat) is prohibited with limited exceptions (e.g., in some cases these may be imported if consigned directly from the port of arrival to an eligible USDA-approved establishment).
- Importation as cargo of fresh, unprocessed shell/table eggs and egg products, void of the shell (e.g., liquid eggs and dried egg whites) is prohibited unless they are consigned from the port of arrival directly to an APHIS-approved breaking and pasteurization facility. An import permit and/or certificate is not required in such cases.
Separately, APHIS has removed restrictions on imports of poultry and related products originating from zones PCZ-FV10 and -11 in British Columbia, Canada, as of April 7.
Horses
APHIS has issued a final rule that, effective May 11, eliminates the requirement that horses offered for importation be accompanied by documentation of pre-export examination occurring within 48 hours of departure from the port of embarkation endorsed by a salaried veterinary medical officer. APHIS said it is removing this requirement, which was part of a September 2023 final rule making various amendments to the horse import regulations, because logistical barriers prevent affected parties from meeting it at this time.
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