Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) are responsible for safeguarding agriculture and natural resources from the risks associated with the entry, establishment, or spread of animal and plant pests and noxious weeds.
The Phytosanitary Certificate Issuance and Tracking (PCIT) system tracks the
inspection of agricultural products and certifies compliance with plant health standards of importing countries. This capability provides APHIS/PPQ better security, reporting functions, and monitoring capabilities for exported commodities.
The PCIT also provides a link to the PExD. PExD is a repository of phytosanitary
import requirements of U.S. origin commodities to foreign countries. PExD enhances Plant Protection and Quarantine’s
(PPQ’s) ability to maintain the export program for United States exporters. PExD will support PPQ’s Phytosanitary Issues Management (PIM) Export Services (ES) with the task of entering export summaries
for foreign countries. PExD provides reusable text to facilitate uniform entry of export summaries. PExD also provides PPQ staff, State and County cooperators, and exporters’ easy access to export summaries
via direct user queries. PExD interfaces with the Phytosanitary Certificate Issuance & Tracking System (PCIT) application processing.
During application processing, users are provided with pertinent
export
An export in international trade is a good produced in one country that is sold into another country or a service provided in one country for a national or resident of another country. The seller of such goods or the service provider is an ...
summaries based on the consignee country, applicable commodities, and other data contained in an application.
Phytosanitary Certificate
Phytosanitary certification is used to attest that consignments meet phytosanitary (regarding plants) import requirements and is undertaken by an NPPO (National Plant Protection Organisation). A phytosanitary certificate for export or for re-exp ...
- Certificate patterned after the model certificates of the IPPC
AO, 1990 In the U.S., this is an official document (PPQ Form 577) that attests to the
phytosanitary condition
of commodities and is issued by an Authorized Certification Official.
See also
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Phytosanitary Certification
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USDA
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is the federal executive department responsible for developing and executing federal laws related to farming, forestry, rural economic development, and food. It aims to meet the needs of com ...
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Plant Protection and Quarantine
Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) is one of six operational program units within the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The PPQ works to safeguard agriculture and natural re ...
External links
* http://www.aphis.usda.gov/import_export/plants/plant_exports/pcit.shtml
* https://pcit.aphis.usda.gov/pcit/
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