Miscellaneous International Trade Notices
Reuters has reported that U.S. lawmakers are unlikely to repeal export tax subsidies that violate global trade rules in time to avoid punitive European Union (EU) trade sanctions on billions of dollars of U.S. goods. According to Reuters, the EU plans to impose a 5% duty on more than $4 billion worth of U.S. exports beginning March 1, 2004 if President Bush has not signed legislation repealing the Foreign Sales Corporation-Extraterritorial Income (FSC-ETI) tax regime. (Reuters Pub 02/13/04, available at http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=4355783)
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
If your job depends on informed compliance, you need International Trade Today. Delivered every business day and available any time online, only International Trade Today helps you stay current on the increasingly complex international trade regulatory environment.
1. Reuters Reports U.S. Unlikely to Avoid EU's FSC-ETI Trade Sanctions
2. CBP Announces Recordation of "DISPALCA" and "YOUPAL" Trade Names
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued separate notices announcing that (1) effective February 10, 2004, "DISPALCA" has been recorded with CBP as a trade name by Caribbean Imports, Inc. a Florida corporation, and (2) effective January 28, 2004, "YOUPAL" has been recorded by CBP as a trade name for Youpal International, Inc. an Arkansas corporation. (FR Pub 02/10/04 (DISPALCA), available at http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/14mar20010800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2004/pdf/04-2726.pdf and FR Pub 01/28/04 (YOUPAL), available at http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/14mar20010800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2004/pdf/04-1753.pdf)
3. FDA Planned to Resend Verifications Notices to Certain Food Facilities Due to an Error Regarding Their Preferred Mailing Addresses
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has posted to its Web site a notice announcing that in the course of its process of sending verification notifications to each food facility in order to ensure that it has received accurate information, an error was discovered which resulted in the notifications not being sent to the "preferred mailing address" that some facilities chose to include in their registration. As a result of this error, in early February 2004 the FDA asked facilities that provided a preferred mailing address not to respond to the initial notification mailing (if they had not already done so). Instead, FDA stated that it intended to resend the verification notification to the facility's preferred e-mail address or preferred mailing address (if it did not have a response on file from the prior mailing) and requested that the appropriate contact at the preferred mailing address respond to that future notice. Sources at the FDA's Help Desk (800-216-7331) opined that the FDA has most likely already resent the verification notifications to the necessary facilities. (FDA notice, dated 02/02/04, available at www.cfsan.fda.gov/furls/fsbtnot2.html.)
4. USTR Posts CAFTA Agriculture Fact Sheets to its Web Site
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) has posted to its Web site the following U.S.-Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) agriculture fact sheets:
Fact Sheet on Agriculture
Fact Sheet on Specific Agricultural Products
Fact Sheet on Ethanol
(See ITT's Online Archives or 02/04/04 news, 04020405, for BP summary on the posting of the draft text of CAFTA on the USTR Web site.) (CAFTA agriculture fact sheets (dated 02/09/04) available at http://www.ustr.gov/new/fta/cafta.htm.)