The Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service reports that beginning May 20 it will roll out use of the APHIS core message set for certificates of foreign inspection and/or treatment (PPQ Form 203, LPCO type code A07) for air shipments of precleared commodities from Chile, air shipments of precleared commodities from Thailand, and both air and maritime shipments of precleared commodities from Argentina. This functionality will continue to be phased in for additional international preclearance locations and commodities.
Among other things, APHIS states, this process improvement will create an electronic database that can be invoked by filers and accessed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agriculture inspectors through the Automated Commercial Environment’s Document Image System. It will function like current permitting and ePhyto capabilities in ACE, which means that brokers or filers must:
- have a properly filed APHIS core message set and invoke the PPQ Form 203 (LPCO type code A07) to populate within the DIS (APHIS inspectors overseas will send PPQ Form 203s directly to the DIS);
- ensure that the form data declared matches the data transmitted by the overseas APHIS inspector to enable CBP agriculture inspectors in the U.S. to view and utilize the PPQ Form 203; and
- appropriately report in PG13/14: LPCO Type to A07, LPCO issued date, LPCO commodity quantities, and LPCO (PPQ Form 203) certificate number.
Copyright © 2025 Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg, P.A.; WorldTrade Interactive, Inc. All rights reserved.