Regulatory changes and updates seafood supply chains need to know.
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Today the US Department of Homeland Security announced another round of additions to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) Entity List, and for the first time a seafood company was included. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) signaled this was coming at their annual trade summit earlier this year, so
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Last Friday, NOAA released a report to Congress on SIMP implementation that we need to unpack. For the newcomers, the US Seafood Import Monitoring Program (SIMP) is a regulation that requires reporting detailed sourcing information including fishing vessels, species and harvest areas for ~30% of all seafood entering the US.
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The Departments of Commerce, Treasury, and Justice are putting the world on notice - US sanctions are not just a domestic issue. Here's what seafood supply chains need to know.
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Last December, President Biden expanded upon a 2022 Executive Order banning select US imports from Russia–including seafood–to now encompass Russian-origin exports to the US from any country. Given their shared border and extensive processing capacity China has frequently served as an intermediary for Russian seafood en route to
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On December 22, 2023 President Biden updated his previous Executive Order banning imports of Russian seafood to the US because, frankly, the 2022 version wasn't working. The new order became effective immediately which meant that some implementing measures needed to be put in place right away. Here’s
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We'll break down the seafood requirements in President Biden's second Executive Order on banning Russian seafood imports and discuss what to expect moving forward.
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Update: On November 16, 2023, NOAA announced an additional two-year delay in the implementation of the Marine Mammal Protection Act Import Provisions. Original post from November 1, 2023: Fifteen years after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) was asked to ban seafood imports under the Marine Mammal Protection Act,
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Yesterday The New Yorker published two lengthy exposés from indie journalist Ian Urbina on China's labor abuse in the seafood sector (citations below). They claim that 17% of the squid imported to the US was processed by forced laborers in China, some of it harvested by fishers enslaved
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This morning, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) shared some practical information about their plans for enforcing FSMA 204 on an operational level. Here's our quick breakdown of what you should know: 1. Industry will be able to submit data to the FDA in two ways: 1.
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Last week NOAA issued its biennial report on international fisheries management, which includes a list of nations engaged in Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing. The report chronicles the recent history of enforcement, diplomacy and capacity building between the US and a host of nations on fishery management issues ranging
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The US Department of State is all about diplomacy, but did you know that it also has a small but influential role in regulating shrimp imports? It’s true! The department bans imports from foreign shrimp fisheries that do not meet the US standard for protecting sea turtles. Thematically, the
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Goldfish asked NOAA for extra time to review its estimate of how much Seafood Import Monitoring Program compliance costs US industry. In the 30-day extension NOAA gave we surveyed brokers and importers to test NOAA’s assumptions as well as our own. Here's what we learned: It takes