The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for July 30:
The International Trade Administration is requesting input by Aug. 17 from companies interested in being listed in the U.S. Environmental Solutions Toolkit. Specifically, the companies should be capable of exporting their goods or services relevant to (a) groundwater remediation; (b) mercury emissions control from power plants; (c) emissions control from large marine diesel engines; and (d) nutrient removal from municipal wastewater. The toolkit will be used by foreign environmental officials and foreign end-users of environmental technologies and will outline U.S. approaches to a series of environmental problems and highlight participating U.S. vendors of relevant U.S. technologies. Exporters interested in being listed on the toolkit website are encouraged to submit their company’s name, website address, contact information, and environmental category of interest.
The Court of International Trade approved amendments to its Rules for Review and Comment July 24, which are set to take effect on Sept. 3. CIT had proposed the amendments, which pertain to CIT Rule 54.1, for comment on April 13. CIT said it received no comments on the amendments, and adopted the proposal without change. The amendments to Rule 54.1 include, among other things, a requirement that applications for attorney’s fees and expenses under the Equal Access to Justice Act be filed within 30 days after the date of final judgment (the Rule previously stated that applications must be filed within 30 days after the court enters final judgment). A new sentence also says the 30-day statutory period for filing an application under the Equal Access to Justice Act begins to run after the expiration of the time period for filing an appeal. The amendments to rule 54.1 are available here.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's website as of July 27, 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 July 27, lists notices from the Secretary of the Economy as follows:
Three years after its implementation, the Earned Import Allowance Program (EIAP) is not providing enough incentives to help boost the competitiveness of Dominican apparel exports in the U.S. market, said the International Trade Commission in its report “Earned Import Allowance Program: Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Program for Certain Apparel from the Dominican Republic; Third Annual Review.” Although U.S. exports of cotton bottom-weight fabrics grew in 2011, the rate of growth slowed significantly from the first two years of the program.
The International Trade Commission is asking for comments by about Aug. 7 on a July 24 patent complaint filed on behalf of Technology Properties Limited, Phoenix Digital Solutions and Patriot Scientific Corp., which alleges violations of Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930 in the import into the U.S., the sale for import, and the sale within the U.S. after import of certain wireless consumer electronics devices and components thereof (D/N 2904). ITC is asking for comments on any public interest issues that might affect ITC consideration, including whether the issuance of an exclusion order and/or cease and desist order would impact the public interest.
The International Trade Commission voted to institute an investigation of certain video analytics software, components thereof, and products containing same (337-TA-852). The products at issue in this investigation are systems containing hardware and/or software for analyzing information from a video source to detect, classify, and track objects and generate outputs.
The International Trade Administration published notices in the July 27 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 July 26 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of: