APHIS would lower trade restrictions
by enabling imports of swine, swine meat, and swine genetics from
the European Union to resume more quickly from areas that
experience and then eradiate outbreaks of CSF. To accomplish this,
it would apply a uniform set of importation requirements related to
CSF to all of the original 15 Member States of the European Union,
establish a classification for regions that present a low risk of
introducing CSF into the US, and recognize all of the original 15
Member States as a low-risk region for CSF.
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1320.8(b)(3).
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benefit, or mandatory);
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