On March 7 the Foreign Agricultural Service posted the following GAIN reports:
The Agricultural Marketing Service’s National Organic Standards Board will meet April 29-May 2 in San Antonio, Texas, to discuss potential changes to the National List of Allowed and Prohibited Substances in organic products. The committee will discuss petitions for new substances, review of existing entries on the National List, and updates from working groups on technical issues. Written comments will be accepted through April 8. More information on the meeting is (here).
The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for March 10:
The Cedar Rapids Airport Commission submitted an application to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board to reorganize FTZ 175 under the Alternative Site Framework, and expand the zone to cover 30 counties in Eastern Iowa, according to an FTZ Board Federal Register notice. Under the reorganization, the zone's service area would cover Appanoose, Benton, Blackhawk, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Davis, Delaware, Des Moines, Dubuque, Grundy, Henry, Iowa, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Jones, Keokuk, Lee, Linn, Louisa, Mahaska, Monroe, Muscatine, Poweshiek, Scott, Tama, Van Buren, Wapello, and Washington Counties. The zone would be adjacent to the Quad-Cities and Des Moines Ports of Entry. ASF streamlines processes for designation of new FTZ subzones and usage driven sites within the larger service area by allowing companies to request zone status through the relatively simple "minor boundary modification" process. Comments on the application are due by May 12.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website March 7, 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 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.)
The partnership that has developed between CBP and the trade through the Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations (COAC) is the fruit of a collaborative spirit from both, said industry and government officials during a panel discussion on public-private partnerships at the CBP Trade Symposium on March 6. CBP has shown a willingness to take criticism and use it to improve, said the officials. The trade, meanwhile, has to be patient and work with CBP instead of showering it with criticism, they said. The partnership that has developed in the U.S. is unique in its success, and serves as an example to the rest of the world, they said.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the March 7 Federal Register on the following AD/CV injury, Section 337 patent, and other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department published notices in the March 7 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):
The Commerce Department is beginning an antidumping duty new shipper review on pasta from Turkey (A-489-805) at the request of Bessan Makarina Gida San. Ve Tic. A.S., for merchandise the company both produces and exports to the United States. Commerce will determine if Bessan is eligible for an individually-calculated estimated AD cash deposit rate.
The Commerce Department issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on cut-to-length carbon-quality steel plate products from South Korea (A-580-836). The agency calculated a preliminary AD rate for six companies, and said five other companies -- Daewoo, Dongbu, GS Global, Hyosung, and Hyundai Steel -- had no exports of subject merchandise to the U.S. during the period of review. If Commerce's findings for the five "no shipments" companies are continued in the final results, subject merchandise from these companies will continue to enter at AD rates set in previous reviews. These preliminary results are not in effect. Commerce may modify them in the final results of this review and change the estimated AD cash deposit rates for these companies.