The International Trade Administration will deduct export taxes and similar charges from export prices when calculating antidumping rates for non-market economy (NME) countries (i.e., China and Vietnam), it announced. The change to its methodology will be applied to AD investigations and administrative reviews initiated after June 19.
The State Department and the Bureau of Industry Security issued proposed rules containing their definitions of the term “specially designed’ as it appears in the Commerce Control List and the U.S. Munitions List. The State and BIS proposed rules would amend the International Traffic in Arms Regulations and the Export Administration Regulations to create a two-paragraph, “catch and release” definition that would initially define items that are “specially designed” for military applications, then provide exceptions to prevent the definition from overreaching.
Mexico's Diario Oficial of June 15, lists notices from the Secretary of the Economy as follows:
The International Trade Administration published notices in the June 15 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):
The U.S. Trade Representative instructed the International Trade Administration to implement the results of its Section 129 recalculations of the antidumping cash deposit rates currently in effect for companies whose merchandise is subject to 8 AD duty orders on certain products originating from the European Union and Japan, in order to implement the WTO’s findings in three zeroing disputes. Section 129 determinations are prospective in nature. The ITA said these final results will not determine assessment rates for entries of subject merchandise made during the period of review in question, but only cash deposit rates on entries beginning June 8, 2012 (the date of the USTR’s implementation letter. The ITA will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection to implement these recalculated AD cash deposit rates soon.
On June 14 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The Food and Drug Administration issued its weekly Enforcement Report for June 13 that lists the status of recalls and field corrections for food, drugs, biologics, and devices. The report covers both domestic and foreign firms.
All fresh, frozen, canned, and processed oysters, clams, mussels, and whole and roe-on scallops (molluscan shellfish) from Korea that have entered the U.S. should be removed from sale or service, said the Food and Drug Administration. This includes molluscan shellfish from Korea that entered the U.S. prior to May 1, when the FDA removed such products from the Interstate Certified Shellfish Shippers List (ICSSL), and that which may have inadvertently entered the country after that date, it said. According to FDA, These products and any products made with them may have been exposed to human fecal waste and are potentially contaminated with norovirus.
On June 14 the Foreign Agricultural Service issued the following GAIN reports:
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service added new commodities to the Light Brown Apple Moth (LBAM) exempted host list. In its revised Federal Order, APHIS said the following commodities are now exempted: Allium cepa (onion); Allium sativum (garlic); Citrullus lanatus, Citrullus vulgaris (watermelon); Coriander sativum (cilantro); Cucumis melo (various melons); Daucus carota (carrot); Foeniculum vulgare (fennel); Gossypium hirsutum, Gossypium barbadense (cotton); Pistacia vera (pistachio); Prunus amygdalus, Prunus dulcis (almond); Punica granatum (pomegranate); Taraxacum officinale (dandelion green); and Ziziphus jujube (jujube).