The National Service for Health and Agri-Food Quality (Senasa) reported that as of June 7, 2020, all Exports and imports between Argentina and the United States will operate with electronic phytosanitary certification for all products and by-products of plant originThis was agreed between Senasa on behalf of the country and its respective American counterpart, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS).
In this way, paper will no longer be used to certify trade relations between both countries, making the more dynamic, agile, transparent and efficient process. The US joins the use of Electronic Phytosanitary Certificate (e-Phyto) in the exchange of the aforementioned products, already implemented in our country's trade with Chile.
The e-Phyto System is a initiative of the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) that operates under the orbit of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)The IPPC seeks that all National Plant Protection Organizations (NPPO) of the contracting countries, for example in our country Senasa, implement the use of the electronic certificate.
Thus, an exporting NPPO (for example, Senasa) transfers e-Phyto certificates, through a secure system, to the “Hub” (central IPPC certificate exchange system), sending that certificate to the “mailbox” of the importing country in the Hub, from where its NPPO (APHIS in the United States) can retrieve it.
Senasa indicates that to do so, the Hub requires that all countries participating in the exchange of e-Phyto certificates "use a standardized message delivery for the transmission and recovery of electronic certificates. This eliminates the need for multiple bilateral access agreements and allows all countries that wish to participate.
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