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  • CBP to continue temporary reduced hours at ports

    Lynn Hurst, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Chief Agriculture Specialist|May 27, 2020

    U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will continue to operate six ports of entry in Montana and one in Idaho at reduced hours due an agreement signed by Canada and the United States to extend the “essential only” travel restrictions through at least June 22, or until the Administration lifts the current travel restrictions. With the “essential only” travel restrictions first imposed on March 21 in response to the COVID 19 pandemic, cross-border travel significantly declined. Reducing the hours of operations at ports of entry along both la...

  • Bringing Raw Pet Food into the United States

    Lynn Hurst, US Customs and Border Protection|Oct 2, 2019

    U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Office of Field Operations (OFO) Area Port of Sweetgrass wants importers and the traveling public to know that raw pet food is not allowed into the United States, unless accompanied by an import permit issued by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Veterinary Services (VS). Recently, CBP Agriculture Specialists at northern land border ports of entry have seen an increase in the number of travelers arriving with frozen, raw pet food to be fed to their dogs....