CSMS Message: 92-000025

TO : ALL ABI BROKERS.

FROM : LEO WELLS

SUBJECT : TUNA EMBARGO

DATE : 06/19/92

2163114
JUNE 11, 1992

ENT-1-CO:T:I:OA LW

CATEGORY: RES

TO: ALL DEPUTY ASSISTANT REGIONAL COMMISSIONERS/REGIONAL
DIRECTORS (COMMERCIAL OPERATIONS), DISTRICT, AREA AND PORT
DIRECTORS OF CUSTOMS

FROM: DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF TRADE OPERATIONS

RE: TRADE EMBARGO ON YELLOWFIN TUNA AND YELLOWFIN TUNA PRODUCTS
EXPORTED FROM CERTAIN COUNTRIES (SUPPLEMENT #9 TO EMAIL
MESSAGE 2030112 OF 1/30/92)

PASS TO: ALL REGIONAL PROGRAM MANAGERS, NATIONAL IMPORT
SPECIALISTS, IMPORT SPECIALISTS, FP AND F OFFICERS, OAS,
NATIONAL COORDINATOR FOR ENTRY SUMMARY SELECTIVITY,
ENTRY OFFICERS, INSPECTORS AND OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES
SUCH AS IMPORTER TRADE ASSOCIATIONS AND BROKER
ASSOCIATIONS

BY LETTER, DATED 6/9/92, NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE
(NMFS) HAS NOTIFIED CUSTOMS HQ. THAT INDONESIA HAS NOW BEEN
REMOVED FROM THE INITIAL TWENTY(20) SECONDARY EMBARGO COUNTRY
LIST. AS A RESULT, THE FOLLOWING PROCEDURES SHOULD BE
IMPLEMENTED.

ACTIONS:

1. EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY (REGARDLESS OF DATE OF EXPORT),
YELLOWFIN TUNA AND YELLOWFIN TUNA PRODUCTS EXPORTED FROM
INDONESIA ARE NO LONGER COVERED BY OUR PREVIOUS EMAIL
MESSAGE 2030112 OF 1/30/92.

2. THE NUMBER OF COUNTRIES SUBJECT TO THIS SECONDARY TRADE
EMBARGO IS NOW ELEVEN (11).

3. QUESTIONS BY CUSTOMS OFFICERS CONCERNING THIS ISSUANCE
SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO CUSTOMS HQ., OFFICE OF TRADE
OPERATIONS, OTHER AGENCY BRANCH, AT FTS 566-8651.

QUESTIONS BY THE IMPORTING PUBLIC SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO
EITHER STEVE THOMPSON OR E.C. FULLERTON OF NMFS,
SOUTHWEST REGION, AT (301) 980-4001.

C.L. BRAINARD