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IA #34-01 - 12/04/92 Revised, "Automatic Detention of Cocoa Beans
            From Brazil and Indonesia Due to Presence of Live
            Insects"


TYPE OF ALERT: AUTOMATIC DETENTION

PRODUCT        :    Cocoa Beans

PRODUCT CODE   :    34A[]B99

HARMONIZED
CODE           :    1801.00.0000

PROBLEM        :    Live Insects (FLNF)


COUNTRY        :    Brazil (BR, 220)
                    Indonesia (ID, 458)
                    Malaysia (MY, 580)


MANUFACTURER/
SHIPPER        :    Brazil, Indonesia, Malaysia:  All Shippers


MANUFACTURER
SHIPPER I.D.#:  N/A

IMPORTER'S
I.D.#        :  N/A

CHARGE    :    "The article is subject to refusal of admission
               pursuant to Section 801(a)(3) in that it appears
               to consist in whole or in part of a filthy
               substance in that it appears to contain live
               insects [Adulteration, Section 402(a)(3)]."

RECOMMENDING
OFFICE    :    BLT-DO, HFR-MA250

REASON FOR
ALERT     :    During the first six months of FY91, BLT-DO has
               made a total of 44 detentions for live insect
               infestation from 57 shipments of cocoa beans from
               Brazil (77% violation rate).  These 44 detentions
               represented 9 different Brazilian shippers.


          Import Alert #34-01  Revised 12/04/92   Page 2

          Also for this same period of time, BLT-DO made 144
          detentions for live insect infestation from 149
          shipments of cocoa beans from Indonesia (96% violation
          rate).  These detentions represented 17 Indonesian
          shippers.

          During this same period, BLT-DO made 70 detentions for
          live insect infestation for 122 shipments of cocoa
          beans (57% violation rate).  These detentions
          represented four different shippers.

          Results were obtained using Macroanalytical Procedures
          Manual (MPM) V-18.


INSTRUCTIONS   :    Automatically detain, without physical
                    sampling and analysis, all shipments of cocoa
                    beans from Brazil, Indonesia, Malaysia.
                    Increase coverage of cocoa beans from other
                    countries may be indicated.

KEYWORDS       :    COCOA, BEANS, COCOA BEANS, INSECTS

FOI            :    No purging is necessary.