Seafood Import Procedures and Certification of Admissibility

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Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) filed 1 comment on this docket between Apr 2, 2025 and Apr 2, 2025. 3 other organizations filed here. The comment window closed 525d ago.

What Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) filed (1)

Abstract

NMFS proposes amendments to regulations implementing seafood import restrictions that may be imposed under the authority of the High Seas Driftnet Fishing Moratorium Protection Act (16 U.S.C. 1826d-k), the Marine Mammal Protection Act (16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.) or the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.). These statutes have provisions that authorize the Agency to impose import restrictions against nations or its flag vessels for fish products that are unlawfully or unsustainably acquired, including those that are harvested by fishing methods that have bycatch of protected living marine resources in excess of United States standards. The statutes allow for imposition of trade measures against specific fisheries or specific vessels as well as those applied to the nation as a whole. In such cases of targeted import restrictions, NMFS requires Certification of Admissibility whereby exporting government officials must validate that individual seafood shipments are not subject to an embargo.

• Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)THIS ORG

  1 filing · confidence 97%
• National Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association of Americatrade assoc.

  2 filings · confidence 85%
• National Fisheries Institutetrade assoc.

  2 filings · confidence 85%
• Virgil Group LLCunverified attribution

  1 filing · confidence 70%