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Commercial Information Circulars

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Ref. : EIC 111/2

22 December 2017

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 1194/2017

US : New Seafood Import Monitoring Program - Implementation Date and Compliance Guide

Beginning 1 January 2018, specified seafood imported into the United States must comply with the requirements of the US Seafood Import Monitoring Program. In this relation, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries has recently updated in its website the Compliance Guide for the Program. The Compliance Guide is available at http://www.iuufishing.noaa.gov/Portals/33/SIMPComplianceGuide2017rev.pdf?ver=2017-12-07-174611-977.

DETAILS

2.The trade was informed via Commercial Information Circulars Nos. 92/2017 dated 1 February 2017 and 401/2017 dated 22 May 2017 of the New Seafood Import Monitoring Program which will come into effect on 1 January 2018. The Program establishes new requirements on permitting, reporting and recordkeeping procedures relating to the importation of certain fish and fish products identified as being at particular risk of illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing or seafood fraud. The Program is established to implement the prohibition on the import and trade, in interstate or foreign commerce, of fish taken, possessed, transported or sold in violation of any foreign law or regulation or in contravention of treaty or a binding conservation measure of a regional fishery organization to which the US is a party.

3.For latest information related to the Program, traders are advised to visit the designated webpage developed by the NOAA Fisheries at http://www.iuufishing.noaa.gov/RecommendationsandActions/RECOMMENDATION1415/FinalRuleTraceability.aspx.

ENQUIRIES

4.For enquiries concerning this circular, please contact Mr Lewis LAU at telephone number 2398 5405.

Yours faithfully,

(Jasper LAM)
for Director-General of Trade and Industry

Note: While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the above information, the Department cannot guarantee this to be so and will not be held liable for any reliance placed on the same.