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Commercial Information Circulars

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Ref : EIC 111/2

1 February 2017

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 92/2017

US : New Seafood Import Monitoring Program

The US Department of Commerce (DoC) recently published a final rule to establish a new Seafood Import Monitoring Program 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 compliance date for the rule is 1 January 2018.

DETAILS

2.The new Seafood Import Monitoring 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. For more details on the new requirements, please refer to the Federal Register at the following links:
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2016-12-09/pdf/2016-29324.pdf.

ENQUIRIES

3.For enquiries about the content of this circular, please contact Mr Lewis LAU at telephone number 2398 5405.

Yours faithfully,

(Ms Crystal YAN)
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.