The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for May 15:
A North Carolina-based importer of appliances will pay $750,000 to settle charges that it failed to report consumer product safety issues related to ovens, said the Justice Department on May 14. Electrolux also agreed to set up a compliance program with internal recordkeeping and monitoring systems to keep track of hazards, after it allegedly failed to notify the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website May 14, 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 U.S. --Canada Regulatory Cooperation Council (RCC) provided an update on its actions related to harmonizing regulations in the U.S. and Canada during the first part of 2014. Highlights include a new bill in the Canadian parliament that harmonizes classification and labeling requirements for workplace hazardous chemicals, as well as an agreement between the U.S. and Canada to harmonize terminology for whole cuts of meat.
Bear Archery and SOP Services on May 9 filed a Section 337 complaint at the International Trade Commission requesting a ban on importation of some archery products made by Chinese company Ningbo Topoint Outdoor Sports. Bear and SOP say arrow rests and broadheads made by Topoint infringe its patents. Specifically, the arrow rests copy a patented design for a “full capture” or “containment shoot-through” rest that fully encircles the arrow with bristles or some other flexible material to provide support for the arrow prior to being fired. The arrow broadheads infringe Bear’s patent on an arrowhead that includes sharpened blades that expand on impact to cause increased bleeding, with the intention of causing a more humane kill than a regular arrow tip. Bear and SOP say infringing products include Topoint’s TP813, TP8l5, TPl05,TP2000, TP9000, TP222, and TP223. They are requesting a general exclusion order banning importation of all infringing archery products, or in the alternative a limited exclusion order directed only at imports from Topoint.
The Commerce Department published notices in the May 14 Federal Register on the following AD/CV duty proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CV duty rates, scope, affected firms, or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):
Consumer Product Safety Commission announced on May 13 the following voluntary recalls of imported products:
On May 13 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 is announcing updates to its list of standards FDA recognizes for use in premarket reviews of medical devices (FDA recognized consensus standards). This publication, titled "Modifications to the List of Recognized Standards, Recognition List Number: 035," will assist manufacturers who elect to declare conformity with consensus standards to meet certain requirements for medical devices, said FDA.
The Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Tobacco Products is moving a few miles down the road from Rockville, Maryland. to the agency’s main White Oak campus in Silver Spring. FDA says the move will begin around June 6, and will take about three weeks. All physical correspondence with the Center for Tobacco Products should be addressed to the new address beginning on June 6. More information is available (here).