# Mexican Hass Avocado Import Program
> **Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service** · Final rule. · Published 1999-12-06 · Effective 2000-01-05 · 64 FR 68001
## Document
- **Document number:** 99-31513
- **Category:** plant-animal-health
- **Sub-agency:** Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 64 FR 68001
- **CFR reference:** 7 CFR 319
- **Publication date:** 1999-12-06
- **Effective date:** 2000-01-05
- **USDA docket:** Docket No. 99-020-2
## Abstract

We are amending our regulations governing the importation of Hass avocados from Mexico to require handlers and distributors to enter into compliance agreements with the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. We are also adding requirements regarding the repackaging of the avocados after their entry into the United States. These amendments are necessary to ensure that distributors and handlers are familiar with the distribution restrictions and other requirements of the regulations and to ensure that any boxes used to repackage the avocados in the United States bear the same information that is required to be displayed on the original boxes in which the fruit was packed in Mexico. These amendments will serve to reinforce the existing safeguards of the avocado import program.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1999/12/06/99-31513/mexican-hass-avocado-import-program)
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