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The US' National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) made the announcement Tuesday that many importers had hoped for. The agency has promised to employ an “informed compliance” approach when it rolls out enforcement of its new Seafood Import Management Program (SIMP) on Jan. 1.That means, as detailed in a memo issued via the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Cargo Systems Managing Service, bad data submissions that "cannot be resolved in a timely manner" may be "refiled under the same entry" without penalty. But don’t expect NMFS to be so forgiving forever.“There is not a date set [on when the agency will begin to ratchet up its enforcement], ” John Henderschedt, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Fisheries' Office of International Affairs and Seafood Inspection, told Undercurrent News in an interview Tuesday. He added: “I want to be really clear about something. |
