# Changes to Reporting and Notification Requirements and Other Clarifying Changes for Imported Fruits, Vegetables, and Specialty Crops
> **Agricultural Marketing Service** · Interim rule with request for comments. · Published 2016-12-05 · Effective 2016-12-08 · 81 FR 87409
## Document
- **Document number:** 2016-29022
- **Category:** marketing-order
- **Sub-agency:** Agricultural Marketing Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 81 FR 87409
- **CFR reference:** 7 CFR 944
- **Publication date:** 2016-12-05
- **Effective date:** 2016-12-08
- **USDA docket:** Doc. No. AMS-SC-16-0083
## Abstract

This rule updates reporting and notification requirements associated with, and makes clarifying changes to, the fruit, vegetable, and specialty crop import regulations for certain commodities regulated under section 608(e) (hereinafter referred to as "8e") of the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937. The updates include shifting the exempt reporting requirement for imported tomatoes destined for noncommercial outlets for experimental purposes from the tomato import regulations to the safeguard procedures section of the vegetable import regulations. In addition, the pistachio import regulations will be updated by removing reference to a paper-based notification of entry process. Other administrative changes will be made to several of the 8e regulations to replace outdated information. These changes to the import regulations support the International Trade Data System (ITDS), a key White House economic initiative that will streamline and automate the filing of import and export information by the trade.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/12/05/2016-29022/changes-to-reporting-and-notification-requirements-and-other-clarifying-changes-for-imported-fruits)
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