The Food and Drug Administration sent a warning letter to medical device importer Primus Medical on Oct. 10, alleging an inadequate response to an inspection that revealed deviations from Current Good Manufacturing Practices (CGMP) regulations and failure or refusal to furnish information required by Medical Device Reporting regulations.
On Oct. 23 the Foreign Agricultural Service issued the following GAIN reports:
The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notice for Oct. 24:
The Association of Small Business Development Centers (ASBDC) will host an Automated Export System Compliance Seminar and an AESPcLink Workshop in Jacksonville, Fla., Nov. 7-8, the Census Bureau said. At the seminar on Nov. 7, Census experts will cover the filing requirements of the Foreign Trade Regulations, Schedule B classification requirements, and provide an overview of AES. On Nov. 8, two AESPcLink Workshops will be conducted. More information is available here, and registration is available here. Email documents@brokerpower.com for a copy of this message.
The Census Bureau updated Automated Export System (AES) Port of Export Codes for four Texas ports to allow for “Air” as the mode of transportation. The codes now allow for both Vessel and Air modes of transport, Census said. Codes were updated for the following ports:
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and National Association of Manufacturers filed a joint challenge of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s conflict minerals rule with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Oct. 19. The final rule, published Sept. 12, requires some companies using tantalum, tin, gold or tungsten to disclose use of the minerals and possibly file a detailed report. The Chamber and NAM also challenged the underlying provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act. The appeal provided no details on the challenge, but simply requested that the conflict minerals rule be modified or set aside.
Wilton Industries appealed a Court of International Trade judgment that found in favor of CBP’s classification of its “Stampin Up!” decorative hole punches for use in scrap booking. Wilton had argued that they are classifiable as cutting machines under Harmonized Tariff Schedule Chapter 84 and should have entered duty free, but CIT said CBP correctly classified them as perforating punches under HTS Chapter 82, dutiable at 3.3 percent. CIT also threw out an agreement between Wilton and CBP that the judgment would only apply to 16 models of Wilton hole punches, instead applying the ruling to all 39 models at issue.
The Court of International Trade affirmed the International Trade Administration’s recalculation of Chinese exporter Shantou Red Garden Foodstuff’s antidumping duty rate in the investigation of certain frozen warmwater shrimp from China (A-570-893). CIT had remanded Red Garden’s 27.89 percent AD rate for recalculation in January. In its remand redetermination, the ITA assigned Red Garden an AD rate of 7.2 percent. CIT objected to the ITA’s use of a single Indian company’s data to calculate the surrogate value for Red Garden’s shrimp inputs in its remand redetermination, despite the availability of country-wide Ecuadorian data. But Red Garden did not object, so CIT affirmed.
A North Carolina man pleaded guilty Oct. 22 in U.S. District Court in Charlotte to trafficking in counterfeit airbags, said Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. Igor Borodin, 27, also pleaded guilty to delivering and causing to be delivered hazardous material, that being airbags, by air commerce in violation of rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Transportation.
A Haitian national pleaded guilty Oct. 18 to entry into a seaport under false pretenses, said Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. Benedick Dextra obtained fraudulent documents under the name of Benedick Louis. Dextra then used those illegal documents to obtain a New York driver’s license and a Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC). This allowed him access to secure areas, such as container terminals in Port Elizabeth, N.J., ICE said.