Importation of Fruit and Vegetable Into the Continental United States: Tree Tomatoes from Ecuador (Docket # APHIS-2015-0072)

The U.S. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is proposing to amend the fruit and vegetable regulations to allow the importation of tree tomatoes from Ecuador into the continental United States. As a condition of entry, the tree tomatoes would have to be produced in accordance with a systems approach that would include requirements for importation in commercial consignments, registration and monitoring of places of production, field monitoring and pest-control practices, trapping, and inspection for quarantine pests by the national plant protection organization of Ecuador. This action would allow the importation of tree tomatoes from Ecuador while continuing to protect against the introduction of plant pests into the United States.

Federal Register Vol. 82 No. 118, Wednesday, 21 June 2017, Pages 28262-28266.