APHIS Delays Privacy Exemptions for Smuggling Trade Compliance System
Published Date: 2/11/2025
Notice
Summary
The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is delaying changes to its privacy rules for the Smuggling Interdiction and Trade Compliance system. Originally set to start February 7, 2025, the new privacy exemptions won’t take effect until April 11, 2025, due to a government-wide review. This delay affects anyone involved with APHIS’s trade and smuggling tracking and gives more time to review the privacy protections without impacting any costs.
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Privacy exemption effective date delayed
If you have records in APHIS’s SNICAS system, the Privacy Act exemptions that were slated to be effective as of February 7, 2025, are delayed and will not take effect until April 11, 2025. The delay is due to the Presidential "Regulatory Freeze Pending Review."
Associated final rule delay published
APHIS states it is also publishing a delay of the effective date for the final rule associated with this SNICAS action (see docket APHIS-2015-0008). The notice does not change other dates in this document.
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