@Vish M posted:Many of you on this forum are postings comments without knowing the facts.
New GMC has done NOTHING to advance the Export of Fruits and Vegetables.
Did little to ease the restriction on Whiskered Fishes
You are aware there are guidelines for Importing Fruit and vegetables in the USA.
https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aph...e-permit-information
For the whiskered fishes [Cat Fish] ,are there any assistance from Mike Pompeo as requested by President Irfaan Ali.
Congressional and Administrative Actions
Congress and the Administration have taken several actions to assist the U.S. catfish industry.
- In 2002, Congress passed legislation that only allowed fish in the family Ictaluridae, the family of catfish raised in the United States, to be labeled or advertised as "catfish." These labeling requirements prohibited the labeling of Vietnamese basa (Pangasius bocourti) and tra (Pangasius hypophthalmus) as catfish.1
- In 2003, the International Trade Administration imposed antidumping duties on certain frozen fillets from Vietnam.2 These antidumping duties were upheld by the U.S. International Trade Commission in 2009 and again in 2014.
- In 2008, Congress passed legislation to transfer responsibilities for food safety and inspection of catfish from the Food and Drug Administration to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and to designate catfish, as defined by the Secretary of Agriculture, as an "amenable species" that would be subject to mandatory inspection. A broad definition of catfish would have required inspection programs for imported species such as basa and tra to be equivalent to USDA requirements.3 USDA rulemaking that would have defined catfish has not been finalized.
- In response, the 2014 farm bill requires inspection of all fish in the order Siluriformes, a broad definition of catfish that includes basa and tra, according to USDA requirements.4 The law requires the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service to review the production of catfish by other nations that export to the United States to determine whether they meet USDA standards. The final rule is still under review by the Office of Management and Budget.
- https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/R44177.html