The Foreign Trade Zones Board released a list of FTZ grantees which have not submitted their mandatory 2011 annual report on zone operations, which was due on March 31, 2012. The FTZB said any grantee that has not yet submitted its 2011 report should do so as soon as possible to minimize the risk of fines or other adverse action, and that it cannot process any requests from those grantees until their 2011 reports are submitted. The FTZB’s list of grantees which have not submitted the 2011 report is as follows:
The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed the Court of International Trade’s affirmance of the International Trade Administration’s remand redetermination, which the ITA completed under protest, of its final results of its 2007 administrative review of the countervailing duty order on certain hot-rolled carbon steel flat products from India (C-533-821). CAFC said the CIT improperly exceeded its authority by requiring the ITA to reopen and supplement the record to admit untimely filed documentation when the Indian respondent and plaintiff, Essar Steel Limited, did not cooperate to the best of its ability.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Web site as of April 30, 2012, 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.
On May 29, the optional import component of the web-based Public Health Information System (PHIS) will be partially operational, the Food Safety and Inspection Service said in a letter to importers dated April 18, 2012. On that date, in all U.S. official import inspection establishments handling imports of meat, poultry and egg products, PHIS will: (i) provide for a government-to-government electronic transmission of inspection certificate data as an alternative to the paper certification, beginning with Australia and New Zealand; and (ii) begin transfer of 10 data elements from U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) to FSIS.
The World Trade Organization reports that, at its meeting on April 24, 2012, the Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) adopted the panel and Appellate Body reports on U.S. measures affecting the sale of clove cigarettes (DS406).
The International Trade Administration published notices in the April 30, 2012, 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 initiated administrative reviews for certain firms subject to antidumping or countervailing duty orders with March anniversary dates. The ITA has also received a request to revoke in part one antidumping order for two exporters. The ITA intends to issue the final results of these reviews no later than March 31, 2013.
On April 27, 2012, the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
On April 27, 2012, the Foreign Agricultural Service issued the following GAIN reports:
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service issued emails April 27, 2012, announcing changes to some Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) electronic manuals. While some changes are minor, other changes may affect the admissibility of the plant products, including fruits, vegetables, and flowers.