The Food and Drug Administration issued its weekly Enforcement Report for June 18 that lists the status of recalls and field corrections for food, drugs, biologics, and devices. The report covers both domestic and foreign firms.
On June 18 the Foreign Agricultural Service posted the following GAIN reports:
The Agricultural Marketing Service is conducting a review of its marketing and promotion order on mangoes. Under the mango order, importers of mangoes that handle more than 500,000 pounds per year must pay a $0.0075 assessment to CBP per dollar of mangoes imported. The money is used for marketing and promotion efforts to expand the domestic market for mangoes. AMS is asking for comments on the order’s effect on small businesses. Comments are due Aug. 19.
The Court of International Trade on June 17 again dismissed a lawsuit brought by Ford on whether reconciliation entries it had filed had deemed liquidated. The court found that Ford’s lawsuit was too late because it was filed over two years after the entries would have deemed liquidated. Ford argued that the two-year statute of limitations should run from when it found out about the issue only two months prior to filing suit, but the court found that Ford should have known the entries hadn’t deemed liquidated when one year came and went after filing the entries without any notice of liquidation from CBP.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website June 18, 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.
Agathon Associates is adding customs brokerage to the services it offers its clients, after principal David Trumbull got his customs broker license, it said in a blog post on June 18. The Boston-based company consults on international trade with a focus on textiles.
The International Trade Commission is beginning an investigation into the global rice trade for a report to Congress, it said on June 17. As part of its investigation, the ITC will look at major rice producers and exporters like Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Uruguay, and Vietnam, as well as the U.S. rice market. It will assess the impact of government policies in those countries on rice production, exports, consumption and prices. House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp requested the investigation on May 9 (see 14051626). The report is due in April 2015.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the June 18 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):
The Commerce Department published notices in the June 18 Federal Register on the following AD/CV duty proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CV duty rates, scope, affected firms, or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):
The Environmental Protection Agency is exempting several chemicals from reporting requirements under its Chemical Data Reporting rule. Effective Aug. 18, manufacturers and importers of 1,3-Propanediol, palm kernel oils, and acid-leached bentonite will no longer have to report processing and use data to EPA, the agency said. Chemical data collected under the rule is available in a database (here).