September 9, 2004

USDA Amends Mandatory Reporting Regulations For Lamb

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service has amended the Livestock Mandatory Reporting regulations, modifying its submission requirements for information regarding domestic and imported boxed lamb cuts sales.
 
This rule amends the definition of "carlot based" to limit carlot-based sales of boxed lamb cuts to transactions between a buyer and a seller consisting of 1,000 pounds or more of one or more individual boxed lamb items, according to an AMS release.
 
The rule also amended the definition of "importer" by reducing the volume of annual lamb imports establishing a person as an importer from 5,000 metric tons of lamb meat products per year to 2,500 metric tons, the release said.
 
The amendment is aimed at improving the AMS' ability to publish meaningful market information on sales of imported and domestic boxed lamb cuts, the AMS said.
 
The final rule becomes effective Nov. 1.
 

Source: USDA