Dairy TRQ Licenses and Fees
The Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service has introduced that it’s going to cost a $350 price (up from $324) for the 2024 tariff-rate quota yr for every license it points to an individual or agency authorizing the importation of sure dairy articles which might be topic to TRQs set forth within the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the U.S. These articles (which embody butter, dried milk, and numerous cheeses) could solely be entered into the U.S. on the in-quota tariff charges by or for the account of an individual or agency to whom such licenses have been issued and solely in accordance with the phrases and circumstances of the regulation. Licenses are issued on a calendar yr foundation and every license authorizes the holder to import a specified amount and kind of dairy article from a specified nation of origin.
Separately, FAS has set forth revised appendices to the dairy TRQ licensing regulation for the 2023 quota yr reflecting the cumulative annual transfers for sure dairy product import licenses completely surrendered by licensees or revoked by the licensing authority. Whenever a historic license (Appendix 1) will not be issued to an applicant or is completely surrendered or revoked, the quantity of that license should be transferred to the listing of non-historical licenses in Appendix 2.
Dairy Exports to China
FAS reported just lately that almost all U.S. dairy amenities registered to ship dairy merchandise to China had their registration standing expire Aug. 31. FAS subsequently strongly encourages dairy exporters to examine their registration standing within the China Import Food Enterprise Registration system earlier than transport merchandise. Companies that ship unregistered merchandise are topic to denial of entry at Chinese ports.
U.S. amenities which have questions after viewing their registration standing on or after Sept. 1 ought to contact CFSAN Export Certification. If a dairy cargo turns into detained or a facility and its cargo face different points, please contact USDA right here.
Poultry Imports
Effective Aug. 22 the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has eliminated restrictions on imports of poultry, industrial birds, ratites, avian hatching eggs, unprocessed avian merchandise and byproducts, and sure contemporary poultry merchandise from zone PCZ-93 in Alberta, Canada, after the highly-pathogenic avian influenza outbreak on this space was fully resolved.
APHIS states that this was the final remaining zone below restriction in Canada and that as of Aug. 22 no zones in Canada are below APHIS restriction for HPAI. As a end result, pet birds, industrial birds, and Columbiformes akin to pigeons and doves imported from Canada not require an APHIS import allow if offered at a land border port, aside from pet birds transiting Canada from the decrease 48 states to Alaska. A well being certificates issued by the Canada Food Inspection Agency is required for industrial birds imported from Canada however not for pet birds. Zoo birds should nonetheless have an import allow and a well being certificates.
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