The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes Nov. 27 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 Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for Nov. 28:
The Bureau of Industry and Security issued a final rule, effective Sept. 19, to amend the Export Administration Regulations by adding two persons from Pakistan to the Entity List and modifying one existing entity from the United Arab Emirates. The rule also corrects citations in part 744 of the EAR to reflect the most recent Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to Weapons of Mass Destruction, issued Nov. 1. The persons being added to the Entity List have been determined by the U.S. government to be acting contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the U.S. Persons can include companies or individuals.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's website Nov. 27, 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://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.)
Mexico's Diario Oficial of Nov. 27, lists notices from the Secretary of the Economy as follows:
The Mexican government is proposing new pest risk mitigation standards on imports of potatoes into Mexico, including from the U.S., according to the Foreign Agricultural Service. The draft would establish a list of quarantine pests that affect potatoes and the phytosanitary mitigation measures that would be taken to reduce the risk of importing potatoes from any part of the world into Mexico, FAS said in the Global Agriculture Information Network report. Once the regulation is finalized, the measures will apply to any quantity of potato imports into Mexico from any country, including the U.S. FAS said the draft rule sets out the following measures for high risk pests:
Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mary Schapiro will step down from that position Dec. 14. Schapiro took office in January 2009. Along with a flurry of rulemaking pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, Schapiro over the past two years presided over more enforcement actions than SEC had ever brought before: 735 enforcement actions in fiscal year 2011 and 734 actions in FY 2012.
The International Trade Administration initiated a new shipper review for the antidumping duty order on steel wire garment hangers from China (A-570-918) at the request of Hangzhou Yingqing Material Co. and Hangzhou Qingqing Mechanical Co. The ITA will determine if these affiliated companies are eligible for an estimated AD cash deposit rate other than the China-wide entity rate it currently receives.
On Nov. 26 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 a final rule to establish Jan. 1, 2016, as the uniform compliance date for food labeling regulations that are issued between Jan. 1, 2013, and Dec. 31, 2014. FDA periodically announces uniform compliance dates for new food labeling requirements to minimize the economic impact of label changes. (FDA previously established Jan. 1, 2014, as the uniform compliance date for food labeling regulations issued between Jan. 1, 2011, and Dec. 31, 2012.)