The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for June 20:
The Census Bureau scheduled a “Go Global” seminar on exporting for small and medium-sized businesses, along with the Small Business Administration, in Glen Ellyn, Ill., June 27, it said in AES Broadcast # 2012039. Census said the seminar is designed to help businesses overcome the information barriers to exporting and remove the perception that exporting is reserved only for large enterprises. Topics include discovering new and existing markets; correctly classifying products; complying with the Foreign Trade Regulations; filing export transactions using the Automated Export System (AES); benefits of freight forwarders; obtaining financing through national export programs; etc. Email documents@brokerpower.com for a copy of this message.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's web site as of June 19, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching on the listed CBP message number at http://addcvd.cbp.gov. (CBP occasionally adds backdated messages without otherwise indicating which message was added. ITT will include a message date in parentheses in such cases.)
The Bureau of Industry and Security and the State Department issued their proposed transition plans for items transitioning from the U.S. Munitions List to the Commerce Control List, pursuant to the Obama Administration’s Export Control Reform (ECR) initiative. In addition, the BIS proposed rule would (1) extend the validity of BIS licenses from two to four years; (2) broaden license exceptions to conform to State’s International Traffic in Arms Regulations exemptions; (3) amend license exceptions for government uses and temporary exports (4) proposed a revised de minimis rule for 600-series USML-CCL transfers; and (5) make additional changes that BIS deems necessary to implement ECR, such as changes to reporting thresholds for the Automated Export System.
Mexico's Diario Oficial of June 18 and 19, lists notices from the Secretary of the Economy as follows:
The Labor Department’s Office of Trade and Labor Affairs (OTLA) is requesting comments and information related to an allegation that the Dominican Republic failed to fulfill its obligations under the labor chapter of the Dominican Republic-Central America-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) (here). Specifically, the submission alleges that the Government of the Dominican Republic failed to fulfill its obligations under the labor chapter through actions or lack thereof that denied workers in the sugar sector their rights under the laws of the Dominican Republic relating to freedom of association, the right to organize, child labor, forced labor, the right to bargain collectively, and acceptable conditions of work. Comments are due by July 2.
AU Optronics LCD panels didn’t infringe Thomson Licensing patents, the International Trade Commission ruled. The commission upheld an administrative law judge’s finding of no violation by AU Optronics, but reversed the administrative law judge’s finding that Chimei Innolux infringed a patent held by Thomson, and returned the case to administrative law judge to determine whether certain claims are invalid in view of the ViewFrame II+2 prior art, said the International Trade Commission.
The International Trade Administration published notices in the June 19 Federal Register on the following AD/CV proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CV duty rates, the scope, affected firms, or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):
On June 18 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
During the week of June 4-10, 2012, the Food and Drug Administration modified the following existing Import Alerts (not otherwise listed on the FDA's new and revised import alerts page) on the detention without physical examination of: