A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website March 4, 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 Obama administration’s Fiscal Year 2015 budget request includes new user fees for the import-related activities of the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the Food and Drug Administration. The president’s budget, issued on March 4 (see 14030418), proposes a new import surveillance user fee that CPSC would begin collecting in FY 2016 to offset the costs of expanding its import surveillance program nation-wide. The proposal also includes new user fees FDA will use to support its import program and implementation of the Food Safety Modernization Act.
Canada took another step toward setting “eManifest” advance manifest transmission requirements for truck and rail cargo, issuing on Feb. 15 proposed regulations that would implement the long-delayed program. Canada Border Service Agency’s proposed rule would require truck carriers to submit cargo and conveyance information one hour before reaching the Canadian border. Rail carriers would have to submit data two hours before a train crosses the border. Freight forwarders would also be tasked with advance electronic submission of secondary information on a shipment, and would have to keep associated records as well.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the March 4 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 International Trade Commission is asking for comments by March 12 on Bose’s request for an import ban on earpiece devices imported by Monster that Bose says is infringing its patents. According to Bose’s Feb. 26 Section 337 complaint, Bose's patented in-ear headphone design allows consumers to use headphones during rigorous exercise and other activities that would otherwise cause traditional headphones to fall out of the user's ear canal (see 14030303). Bose is seeking limited exclusion orders and cease and desist orders against Monster and its affiliates banning import and sale in the U.S. of infringing headphones.
The Commerce Department published notices in the March 4 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):
On March 3 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
During the week of Feb. 24 - March 2, the Food and Drug Administration modified the following existing Import Alerts (not otherwise listed on the FDA's new and revised import alerts page) on the detention without physical examination and/or surveillance of:
The Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research will be moving from its current facilities in Rockville and Bethesda, Md., to FDA’s main White Oak campus in Silver Spring, Md., said the agency in a Federal Register notice. The move will begin around May 1, and should take about 8 weeks, until around July 1, it said. FDA said it will post new addresses for CBER as they become available (here).
The Food and Drug Administration is reopening the comment period until May 5 on a proposal to ban companies from listing solid or dried sugar cane syrup as “evaporated cane juice.” FDA had in 2009 requested comments on a draft guidance that would have set the name for solid or dried sugar cane syrup as “dried cane syrup” instead of “evaporated cane juice” on food labels, because the latter falsely suggests the sweetener is juice. FDA said it is now asking for more comments on the issue because it hasn’t yet decided what the name on food labels should be.