On Aug. 26 the Foreign Agricultural Service posted the following GAIN reports:
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes Aug. 26 to Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) electronic manuals. While some changes are minor, other changes may affect the admissibility of the plant products, including fruits, vegetables, and flowers.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is proposing to allow imports of fresh citrus from areas of South Africa where citrus black spot has been known to occur. The proposed rule would allow imports of grapefruit, sweet oranges, mandarins, lemons and tangelos, subject to requirements for shipment traceability, packinghouse registration and procedures, and cold treatment. Citrus could only be imported in commercial consignments and would have to be accompanied by a phytosanitary certificate from the South African government. Comments are due Oct. 27.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is proposing to allow the importation of fresh citrus fruit from China. The agency’s proposed rule would allow importation of fresh pomelo, mandarin orange, ponkan, sweet orange, and Satsuma mandarin fruit, subject to certain conditions including registration of packinghouses, inspection in China, and requirements for bagging of fruit, safeguarding, post-harvest processing and sampling. Shipments would also need to be accompanied by a phytosanitary certificate. Comments are due Oct. 27.
The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for Aug. 27:
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Aug. 26, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at http://adcvd.cbp.dhs.gov/adcvdweb.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Aug. 26 Federal Register on the following AD/CV injury, Section 337 patent, and other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department issued the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on circular welded carbon steel pipes and tubes from Turkey (C-489-502). The agency assigned zero percent CV duty rates to Borusan and Erbosan, so CV duties will not be assessed on importers of subject merchandise from these companies entered between January 2012 and December 2012. Future entries from these companies will not be subject to an CV cash deposit requirement until further notice. Commerce also continued to assign Toscelik the same CV rate it got in the most recently completed review.
On Aug. 25 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 Aug. 18-24, 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 and/or surveillance of: