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...
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...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will require a permit and additional data reporting for certain imported fish and fishery products. Starting January 1, 2018, failure to provide the appropriate permit information and/or sufficient...
Starting on August 2, USDA required all shipments of siluriformes (colloquially catfish)[1] fish and fish products’ to be presented to USDA’s FSIS for re-inspection. While FSIS will perform 100% “re-inspection” for all imported shipments, the agency does not intend to...
On June 1, 2017, the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) published a notice to lift the antidumping duties imposed on Brazilian frozen warm water shrimp, while extending the antidumping duties currently imposed on shrimp from four Asian countries (China, Vietnam,...
This year the FDAImports.com Government panel at Seafood Expo North America in Boston was again well attended, well reviewed and full of lively dialogue about where the Food & Drug Administration and U.S. Customs & Border Protection are going with respect to...
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