Imports of tomatoes that meet Animal and Health Inspection Services requirements will be allowed beginning July 5.
The U.S. Agriculture Department’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced Monday that it will allow imports of tree tomatoes from Ecuador beginning July 5.
Such tomatoes will have to be produced in accordance with a systems approach including requirements for commercial consignment importations, registration and monitoring of places of production, field monitoring and pest control practices, trapping and inspection for quarantine pests by the national plant protection organization of Ecuador, APHIS said.
USDA to allow tree tomato imports from Ecuador
