A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's web site as of June 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.)
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced 11 appointments to the National Fluid Milk Processor Promotion Board. Four of the appointees will serve out the remaining terms for four vacancies, and the other seven appointees will serve full 3-year terms.
Mexico's Diario Oficial of June 27, lists notices from the Secretary of the Economy as follows:
The U.S. requested the establishment of a World Trade Organization dispute settlement panel to decide U.S. claims regarding China’s export restraints on rare earths, tungsten, and molybdenum, said the U.S. Trade Representative. Japan and the European Union also requested formation of the panel along with the U.S.
The International Trade Administration published notices in the June 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):
The International Trade Administration is initiating an antidumping duty investigation of xanthan gum from Austria and China, it said in a fact sheet issued June 26. ITT will provide more details upon publication of the initiation notice in the Federal Register.
On June 26 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 found violations of the seafood Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) regulation in Vietnamese fish processor Hai Nam Co., Ltd.’s response to an earlier letter, it said in a warning letter dated June 18. FDA said it found Hai Nam’s HACCP plan to control histamine formation in mahi-mahi inadequate because: (1) it does not contain adequate critical limits; (2) its corrective action plans are not appropriate; (3) the plan does not list the food safety hazards of undeclared allergens; and (4) it does not list the critical control points.
On June 26 the Foreign Agricultural Service issued the following GAIN reports:
Amidated, non-organic pectin will be allowed in organic production until October 21, said the Agricultural Marketing Service, extending the implementation date for removal of the substance from June 27. AMS 2012 sunset review final rule, published June 6, had removed amidated, non-organic pectin from the National List of Allowed and Prohibited Substances to allow only non-amidated forms of pectin, and in so doing prohibit amidated forms of pectin in organic production, effective June 27. AMS said it is extending the implementation date (with no change to the actual effective date of the amendments) because, after publication of the final rule on June 6, AMS received new information from industry that some organic processors are currently using amidated, non-organic pectin in their products. The industry indicated that these processors would need time to reformulate these products, AMS said.