Mexico's Diario Oficial of April 14 lists notices from the Secretary of the Economy as follows:
The International Trade Commission published notices in the April 14 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):
On April 11 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 issued its weekly Enforcement Report for April 9 that lists the status of recalls and field corrections for food, drugs, biologics, and devices. The report covers both domestic and foreign firms.
On April 11 the Foreign Agricultural Service posted the following GAIN reports:
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is proposing to allow imports of fresh mangoes from Jamaica to the continental United States. Under the proposal, Jamaican mangoes would have to be produced in ways that mitigate the risk of fruit flies, soft scale insects, and diseases. They would also have to be inspected before exportation from Jamaica, imported in commercial consignments, and accompanied by a phytosanitary certificate issued by the Jamaican government. Comments on the proposed rule are due by June 16.
The Court of International Trade on April 11 mostly upheld the results of the Commerce Department’s countervailing duty investigation on large residential washers from South Korea, in the face of a challenge from Samsung Electronics. Among other things, Samsung challenged Commerce’s finding that a subsidy was “specific” -- in order to be countervailable, a subsidy has to be targeted at a limited group of companies. The court ordered Commerce to reconsider its determination that a tax credit program was in effect specific because Samsung was given a large percentage of the total subsidies disbursed. The high proportion wasn’t enough to find the subsidy specific; Commerce needed to consider other underlying factors, said CIT. But the trade court sustained Commerce’s determination that the tax credit was specific because it was only available in a certain region. Samsung protested that the region where the subsidy was available comprised 98% of the country of South Korea, but CIT said it doesn’t matter how big the area is, only that it’s a limited area.
The American Association of Exporters and Importers urged the Supreme Court take up an appeal on the tariff classification of Ugg boots, in an amicus brief filed April 9. The high court needs to decide once and for all the level of deference owed to internal agency decisions at CBP, said AAEI. Confusion over the issue led to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit finding Deckers Outdoor Corporation’s boots to be “slip-on footwear” because of an internal CBP “footwear definitions” document that wasn’t subject to notice-and-comment, it said (see 13050901). If allowed to stand, the decision would effectively usurp the courts’ duty to interpret the law, said AAEI.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website April 11, 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.
LAS VEGAS -- As part of its effort to reduce air transit times, the International Air Transport Association will be developing new cargo standards for ground handlers, said Warren Jones, president-Cargo Network Services (CNS) at the National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America annual conference on April 8. Jones said the effort to have cargo spend less time waiting on the ground, as well as the ongoing e-Air Waybill program, will help the air cargo group meet its goal of cutting the current six-and-a-half day average timeframe for air shipments by 48 hours before 2020. On the domestic side, the development of Air Cargo Advance Screening (ACAS) is progressing and will prove to be a boon to the forwarding industry, said industry officials.