On May 28, the Foreign Agricultural Service posted the following GAIN reports:
The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notice for May 29:
Daniel O’Toole will take over as circuit executive and clerk of court at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit June 16. O’Toole was previously chief judge at the Department of the Navy, the position from which he retired in 2012.
The Commerce Department will take a look at allegations of fraud during the 2008-09 antidumping duty administrative review of frozen warmwater shrimp from China, after the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit granted the agency a remand. The case had been before CAFC on appeal from the Court of International Trade’s decision sustaining the 2008-09 final results in March 2012 (see 12040304). In the meantime, Commerce found respondent Hilltop International had committed fraud during the 2010-11 review (see 12083123). The Court of International Trade then expanded a remand of the 2009-10 review to see whether fraud also occurred during that proceeding (see 13011003). In ordering a remand of the 2008-09 final results, CAFC chose to follow the lower court’s lead.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's website May 28, 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 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.)
The Commerce Department published notices in the May 28 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):
On May 24 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
On May 24-27, the Foreign Agricultural Service posted the following GAIN reports:
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes May 24 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.
User fees for cotton producers for 2013 crop cotton classification services will remain at $2.20 per bale, the same as in 2011 and 2012, said the Agricultural Marketing Service. According to AMS, this fee and the existing reserve are enough to cover the costs of providing classification services for the 2013 crop, including costs for administration and supervision.