Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) will depart for New Zealand and Japan Aug. 17 to discuss the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) with senior economic and trade leaders. “The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a window of opportunity for our exports to reach new consumers in markets across the Pacific,” Baucus said. “Through the TPP, we can help ensure our trading partners play by the rules and open their markets to American exports.”
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's website Aug. 16, 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 Aug. 16, lists notices from the Secretary of the Economy as follows:
The International Trade Commission is publishing notices in the Aug. 16 Federal Register on the following AD/CV injury, Section 337 patent, and other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will appear in another ITT article):
On Aug. 15 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 Aug. 15 that lists the status of recalls and field corrections for food, drugs, biologics, and devices. The report covers both domestic and foreign firms.
On Aug. 15 the Foreign Agricultural Service issued the following GAIN reports:
Imports of tomatoes containing vines, stems or calyces from tomato leafminer-infested countries will no longer be allowed by the Animal Plant Health and Inspection Service effective Sept. 13, APHIS said in a federal order issued Aug. 14. The federal order also updated the trapping requirements for tomato leafminer, Tuta absoluta, for detection and surveillance. This federal order updates and replaces the previous Tuta absoluta Federal Order DA-26, dated May 5, 2011.
A new pilot institute for manufacturing innovation will be established in Youngstown, Ohio, and will focus on additive manufacturing, announced the Commerce Department. The institute will form part of the National Network of Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI), announced in March, which will consist of up to 15 manufacturing innovation institutes around the country to be regional hubs of manufacturing excellence.
The Agricultural Marketing Service released the “Ocean Shipping Container Availability Report” for the week of Aug. 15-21. The weekly report contains data on container availability for westbound transpacific traffic at 18 intermodal locations in the U.S.1 from the 10 member carriers of the Westbound Transpacific Stabilization Agreement (WTSA)2. Although the report is compiled by AMS, it covers container availability for all merchandise, not just agricultural products.