APHIS Now Accepting Electronic Phytosanitary Certificates
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service and CBP will now “accept electronically produced versions of phytosanitary certificates” for imported plants and plant products, CBP said in a CSMS message. “Importers and brokers may upload the electronic documents to the…
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Automated Commercial Environment using the Document Imaging System or provide them by other means, such as email attachments,” it said. “Acceptable phytosanitary certificates include scanned copies of original certificates, electronic certificates created through a participating country’s ePhyto system, or signed paper forms. Certificates should be legible and include APHIS-required statements. In addition, we will allow precleared consignments to be accompanied by an email from APHIS Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) with an electronic copy of PPQ Form 203 attached, if the original form is not available,” APHIS said.