This week, NAEGA was informed that USDA FGIS has asked the Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) to ask exporters to include a request for Canadian Thistle Seed analysis on all wheat load orders bound for the Republic of Korea and Argentina, as well as all wheat and soybean load orders bound for Vietnam. WSDA indicates it will do the initial analysis, but any “suspect” thistle seeds will be sent to the APHIS lab in North Carolina for further analysis.
NAEGA expects to continue discussion with relevant committees on the actions of both U.S. and Vietnam government in this regard. These developments build upon ongoing actions related to Canada thistle presence. In particular, USDA APHIS has advised NAEGA that:
NAEGA continues pursue measures based on sound science and consistent with international convention that are least trade distortive. We are working to support work with VN PPD in order to establish a compliance regime to pre-empt the precautionary and yet-to-be-identified-or-justified visual inspection at import and re-export measures upon port arrival of U.S. cargoes in VN.
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