Update 5/29/2018: US Tariffs on Chinese Pharmaceuticals and Other Products Moving Forward Posted: 4/04/2018: Several weeks ago, the Trump administration announced that it would impose new tariffs under Section 301 on certain goods imported from China, without...
Update: 4/25/2018 We previously reported that the Consolidated Appropriations Act 2018 (commonly called the omnibus spending bill), which was signed into law by President Trump on March 23rd, 2018, lifted the stay on inclusion of shrimp in the Seafood Import...
Today, March 19, 2018, is when Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP) regulations apply to all imported food shipments from foreign suppliers having less than 500 Full Time Equivalent employees (FTEs) except for food that is imported from a foreign supplier that...
What will happen starting March 19, 2018? Starting March 19, all imported human food shipments from foreign suppliers having less than 500 Full Time Equivalent employees (FTEs) will be subject to FSVP declaration during...
The National Oceanographic & Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has been utilizing its Seafood Import Monitoring Program (SIMP) to require importers of certain seafood...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has taken a new and unnerving approach to directing warnings to foreign seafood processors even though the Agency has not inspected the foreign facility. Recently, FDA issued warning letters to three...
UPDATE 03/29/2018: FDA has committed to well over 1,000 FSVP inspections this year, so the likelihood one will be at your office has increased significantly. The reach of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)...
FDAImports.com has signed a Strategic Partner agreement with Primority Limited and is adopting Primority’s award-winning cloud-based and account-managed compliance solution, 3iVerify, to support FDAImports.com’s regulatory services and make it even easier for their...
A formal agreement between the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was announced on January 30, 2018 to increase coordination and cooperation between the two federal agencies. The agreement focuses on interagency...
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) of the United States Department of Agriculture’s Directive 7120.1 will result, we expect, in a negative impact on trade at least related to the importation of catfish. FSIS’s 126-page directive is entitled the “Safe and...
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