China Tariffs
The Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service reports that China’s State Council Tariff Commission has extended through Feb. 28, 2025, exclusions from the Section 301 retaliatory tariffs for 12 agricultural tariff lines, notably certain logs/lumber, whey for feed use, fishmeal for feed use, and alfalfa. These tariff lines are part of a list of 95 commodities that were scheduled to have their exclusions end July 31.
Export Certificates
The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has announced that, starting Nov. 4, export certificates for meat and poultry products (excluding casings and egg products) exported to Mexico will be generated, issued, and officially maintained in FSIS’ Public Health Information System.
Beginning on that date, FSIS states, all export certificates (FSIS Form 9060-5 series) generated through PHIS for Mexico will be digitally signed and printed on plain, watermarked paper by industry personnel with PHIS access. Any attestations for Mexico, as documented in the FSIS Export Library, will be captured in the FSIS Form 9060-5 remarks section or the FSIS Form 9060-5B (continuation sheet). The digitally-signed FSIS Form 9060-5 series will replace all letterhead certificates for meat and poultry exported to Mexico and no wet-signed 9060-5 series export certificates, including letterhead certificates, will be issued for meat and poultry products for export to Mexico.
Import Requirements
USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has announced that on Oct. 1 it will relocate the plants for planting and treatment manuals to the Agricultural Commodity Import Requirements database, which provides near real-time access to commodity import information. The ACIR database consolidates all plant product manuals, including specific commodity types and treatment schedules, into a single source location. In addition, ACIR’s import requirement data are integrated with the eFile system for processing plant-related permit, license, and registration applications.
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