The United States rejected 3 Indian mango shipments at Los Angeles, San Francisco and Atlanta airports. Due to this, exporters have suffered more than Rs 2 crore. Due to irregularities in mango documents, American officials have ordered to destroy or send them back. Exporters said that mango is a perishable crop and the return cost is high, so it was destroyed in the United States.

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The radiation process is mandatory for importing fruits in the United States. In this process, the germs of the fruit are killed. The PPQ203 form (pest control certificate) is issued to the exporter after the process is completed. In India, this process was under the supervision of the USDA (the US Department of Agriculture) in a plant in Navi Mumbai.

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The PPQ203 form was issued after processing mango on May 5-9. When the shipment reached the United States, officials found errors in the documents. According to the US Department of Agriculture, the PPQ203 form was incorrectly filled, which was rejected by the shipment. But this mistake was not to the presence of pests, but due to the mistakes made in the form.

The exporter said they had to pay for the mistakes of the plant

Exporters say they have to pay for the mistakes of the irradiation plant. A trader said that the PPQ20 form is issued only by USDA officials. If there was no treatment, this form would not have been available. Shipment is not cleared from Mumbai airport in case of a mistake.

The second trader said that the goods were stopped at the Los Angeles Airport from May 1 to 8 and later ordered to destroy it. Traders say that we followed all the rules, yet we had to suffer.

Loss of $ 1 million to exporters

The incident caused the loss of about $ 1 lakh (about Rs. 8.5 crore) to the traders. America is a major Indian mango market. In this case, the export development authority of agricultural and processed food products (APEDA) said that the matter is to the Maharashtra State Agricultural Marketing Board (MSAMB). MSAMB has not responded in this case.

The traders’ concerns increased

The US Department of Agriculture has said that traders will have to bear the cost of returning or destroying goods. The US Customs Department (CBP) has said that the PPQ203 form was “incorrectly issued” and they were not meeting the entrance requirements. Following the incident, traders are questioning the quality of Indian mango, and in the future, such incidents are afraid to happen again.

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