The Food and Drug Administration issued its weekly Enforcement Report for Oct. 10 that lists the status of recalls and field corrections for food, drugs, biologics, and devices. The report covers both domestic and foreign firms.
The Food and Drug Administration updated its Progress Report on Implementing the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) for July through September 2012. According to the report, progress was made in the following areas:
On Oct. 11 the Foreign Agricultural Service issued the following GAIN reports:
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes Oct. 11 to 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.
The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notice for Oct. 12:
The Association of Small Business Development Centers (ASBDC) will host an Automated Export System Compliance Seminar and an AESPcLink Workshop in New York, N.Y. Nov. 14-15, the Census Bureau said. At the seminar on Nov. 14, Census experts will cover the filing requirements of the Foreign Trade Regulations, Schedule B classification requirements, and provide an overview of AES. On Nov. 15, 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 Court of International Trade affirmed the International Trade Administration's decision to treat three Chinese companies as a single entity and apply adverse facts available (AFA) to that entity in the antidumping investigation of aluminum extrusions from China (A-570-967). CIT said the ITA was correct to treat the Guang Ya group, New Zhongya, and Xinya as a single entity because of common ownership by single family, among other things. In response to the companies’ challenge of application of AFA to all three companies, CIT said it is common practice to apply AFA to all members of an entity if one fails to cooperate. The combined entity of the three companies was assigned an AD rate of 33.28 percent in the investigation.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's website Oct. 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://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.)
Congress’ choice to base some apparel tariff provisions on gender, rather than avail itself of other alternatives, means it intended to discriminate based on gender, said Rack Room Shoes in its brief filed with the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Therefore, it said, gender-based tariff provisions for apparel are facially discriminatory and violate the equal protection provisions of the Constitution.
Mexico's Diario Oficial of Oct. 11, lists notices from the Secretary of the Economy as follows: