Global Metcorp LLC will pay a civil penalty of $50,000, of which $40,000 is suspended, and its President will complete export compliance training, as a result of a settlement of export control violations with the Bureau of Industry and Security. According to the BIS order, issued Aug. 6, Global Metcorp exported and arranged for the export of scrap steel to People’s Steel Mills of Pakistan, which is on the BIS Entity List. Global Metcorp’s president must complete the export compliance training within the one year from the date of the BIS order. If Global Metcorp fails to comply with the settlement agreement its export privileges may be denied for one year.
The Census Bureau will hold a webinar on “The Fundamentals of Exporting” Aug. 22 at 1 p.m. This fourth webinar in the Foreign Trade Webinar Series will clarify roles and responsibilities in an export transaction, Census said. Registration is available here. The presentation and archived video of the webinar will be available after the event.
A provision of the Defense Department’s regulations implementing the Defense Trade Cooperation Treaty that gives DoD officials a role in determining whether items can be exported according to the terms of the Treaty, or are instead disallowed because of International Traffic in Arms Regulations limitations, could cause compliance problems for exporters, said the American Bar Association Section of Public Contract Law (ABA-PCL) in comments on DoD’s May interim rule. “The regime has the potential for confusion, particularly because most DoD contracting officers and program managers have relatively little formal training in export controls, and there is no explicit ‘safe harbor’ provision allowing reliance on DoD determinations,” said ABA-PCL.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's website Aug. 15, 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.)
Mexico's Diario Oficial of Aug. 15, lists notices from the Secretary of the Economy as follows:
The International Trade Commission is publishing notices in the Aug. 15 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):
The International Trade Administration published notices in the Aug. 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):
On Aug. 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 sent warning letters to two medical device manufacturers after FDA inspections that revealed non-compliance with the current good manufacturing practice requirements of the Quality System regulation. In a warning letter dated July 26, FDA warned Royal King Infant Products of Thailand that its teething rings face detention without physical examination unless and/or until it corrects violations including, among other things, verification and corrective action procedures. FDA also sent a warning letter dated Aug. 1 to Compumedics Germany for similar reasons, but did not say the company’s offending imaging diagnostic systems are subject to detention without physical examination.
Italian cheese manufacturer Ciresa Formaggi, Snc. faces detention without physical examination of its products if it doesn’t correct alleged unsanitary conditions at its plant, said the Food and Drug Administration in a warning letter. In January, FDA inspected the plant and found that Ciresa’s Taleggio cheese was stored on splintered and rough surfaces. The cheese was stored on pieces of cloth, but the edges of the cheese came into direct contact with the surface below. In its response to the investigation, Ciresa said it had placed bigger pieces of cloth underneath, but the FDA said the cloth is porous and still does not allow for adequate cleaning as required by the Current Good Manufacturing Practice (CGMP) regulation for food.