| Title: | ABI Not Impacted by Recent APHIS Lacey Act Changes |
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| Date: | 2010-05-18 |
| To: | abi |
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Recently the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) posted a clarification to its Website stating that beginning May 1, 2010, APHIS is requiring that plant material quantities be reported on the Lacey Act declaration using standardized metric units (such as kg, m, m2, m3). This change only affects importers using the paper PPQ 505 form, and does not impact any entity filing electronically via ABI. There are no pending programming changes for Lacey Act reporting in ABI.
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