I LOVE the FOIA request idea! I'm going to poke around some more, see if I can actually contact the Fish and Wildlife Service, and get back to you. On simple, non-controversial, matter like yours, that usually gets a reply jolly quickly. One technique I occasionally use with some rich-country civil servants too lazy to answer emails is to head the message "Freedom of Information request" and include a gentle reminder of their legal obligations under their country's FOI legislation. However, your country DOES have savage restrictions on importing some fish and seafood where US fishermen have sought protection from more efficient foreign competition, and there's legitimate concern about the sustainability of the world cod supply so you do need to check. So salt cod might well be a legal import. Even today, the likelihood is that the cod was caught a lot closer to your home than to Portugal. The Portuguese tradition of eating salt cod developed from Portuguese fleets catching their cod in North America and preserving it there to ship home. ![]() It's quite common even for countries with the toughest restrictions on importing foreign meat or veg to have looser rules about sea fish, which can't be claimed to "come" from any country. ![]() I'm not going to be much more helpful: but I know a bit about import laws around the world. I'm sorry you're struggling to get an answer either from your government or from your fellow-citizens.
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