Non Compliance Sensitization Seminar

The objective of the seminar was to sensitize the various industry stakeholders, in both Trinidad and Tobago and Dominica, on the rate of interception of non-complaint fruits and vegetables being exported by producers and ways of mitigating and reducing non-complaint shipments.

Working closely with in-country stakeholders, APHIS focused on inspections at the ports of entries in the United States and estimated costs associated with shipments that do not comply with U.S. requirements (both quantitative and qualitative), highlighting specific crop problems encountered at U.S. ports of entry, and up to date interception data by commodity / country and introduce the stakeholders toAPHIS's trade requirements database as a step in reducing noncompliance.