Japanese importers have communicated to the Florida citrus industry that grapefruit shipments in boxes containing fiberboard honeycomb cells will no longer be accepted in Japan. The discontinuation of shipments to Japan during the time periods required for regular rulemaking would adversely affect the public welfare and would pose an immediate danger to the public welfare, including, but not limited to, Florida’s citrus shippers. Additionally, this emergency rule directly pertains to “perishable agricultural commodities” as expressly contemplated by Section 120.54(4)(b), F.S. Therefore emergency rulemaking is justified, especially in light of the concurrent initialization of rulemaking with an identical rule.