Miscellaneous CBP Releases
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
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- The National Marine Fisheries Service published an updated list of designated officials from the Government of Mexico to sign Certifications of Admissibility for certain seafood products imported into the United States. The new list of Government of Mexico officials is available at the NMFS website (here).
- On March 18, the Department of Commerce initiated its less-than-fair-value and countervailing duty investigations on “Certain Chassis and Subassemblies Thereof from Mexico, Thailand, and Vietnam." These investigations have been assigned the following case numbers: A-201-865 and C-201-866 (Mexico), A-549-854 and C-549-855 (Thailand), and A-522-849 (Vietnam) (here).
- CBP's Pharmaceuticals, Health & Chemicals Center of Excellence is hosting a webinar on Tuesday, April 15 at 11 a.m. EDT. "Marking of Prescription Medications" will provide guidance and discuss the recent decision that requires country of origin marking for prescription medication for retail sale in the United States (here).
- The data available through ACE Reports will not be updated between the morning update on Friday, March 28, and the morning update on Wednesday, April 2, because of a software upgrade. Users will still be able to run ACE Reports during that window, but the data will not be current. Trade processing will not be impacted. On the morning of Wednesday, April 2, ACE Reports will be refreshed with current data (here).
- CBP officers at the Cincinnati Port of Entry in Ohio seized six packages this past weekend containing pill bottles full of Artri King tablets, an unapproved and misbranded drug prohibited by the Food and Drug Administration, CBP said in a March 25 release. All the shipments were arriving from the same shipper in Mexico and were destined for the same residence in California, CBP said. When officers examined these shipments, each box contained 17,000 pills, or 102,000 pills in total, with a street value of $47,000 (here).
- CBP agriculture specialists in Louisville, Kentucky, are seeing an increase in hatching egg shipments, according to a March 24 release. The agricultural specialists seized 39 hatching eggs in three separate seizures on March 6, March 16 and March 19 at the Louisville Port of Entry. The first two shipments from Turkey were heading to New York and Nevada; the latest shipment arrived from Romania and was transiting to Costa Rica, CBP said. For agriculture purposes, hatching eggs fall under the regulations for live animals and are highly regulated because they can carry Newcastle disease and/or Avian Influenza, CBP said (here).