United States of America - Importation of Fruit and Vegetable Into the Continental United States: Tree Tomatoes from Ecuador

The U.S. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) are proposing to amend the fruit and vegetable regulations to allow the importation of tree tomatoes from Ecuador into the continental United States. As a condition of entry, the tree tomatoes would have to be produced in accordance with a systems approach that would include requirements for importation in commercial consignments, registration and monitoring of places of production, field monitoring and pest-control practices, trapping, and inspection for quarantine pests by the national plant protection organization of Ecuador. This action would allow the importation of tree tomatoes from Ecuador while continuing to protect against the introduction of plant pests into the United States.

Products covered: Tree tomatoes

Proposed date of adoption: Not applicable

Proposed date of publication: Not applicable

Proposed date of entry into force: Not applicable

Final date for comments: 21 August 2017

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