Introduction

The Phytosanitary Export Database (PExD) is a repository of foreign countries phytosanitary import requirements for U.S. origin commodities.  PExD enhances the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) ability to maintain the export program for United States exporters.  PExD supports APHIS, PPQ, Phytosanitary Issues Management (PIM) Export Services (ES) with the task of entering export summaries for foreign countries.  PExD provides reusable text to facilitate uniform entry of export summaries.  PExD also provides PPQ, State and County cooperators, and industry user’s easy access to export summaries via direct user queries.  PExD interfaces with the Phytosanitary Certificate Issuance & Tracking System (PCIT) application processing.  During application processing users are provided with pertinent export summaries based on the importing country, commodity, and other data contained in PExD.  This information may be retrieved by users with access to PCIT or for those without access to PCIT, via the PExD link at the bottom of the PCIT home page.