On May 2 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
On May 2, the Foreign Agricultural Service posted the following GAIN reports:
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes May 2 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 Food Safety and Inspection Service revised export requirements and plant lists for the following countries for April 27 - May 2:
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is asking for comments by July 5 on its findings that 59 types of plants for planting are either quarantine pests or hosts of quarantine pests, and should therefore be added to APHIS' lists of taxa of plants for planting whose importation is Not Authorized Pending Pest Risk Analysis (NAPPRA). APHIS said 37 of the plants are quarantine pests, and another 22 are hosts of nine quarantine pests.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's website May 2, 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.)
Mexico's Diario Oficial of May 2, lists notices from the Secretary of the Economy as follows:
The U.S. Trade Representative on April 30 requested an International Trade Commission investigation on the probable economic effect of providing duty-free treatment for imports of products from Japan and the ten other current Trans-Pacific Partnership countries on competitive U.S. industries and consumers. USTR said the report should update the ITC's 2010 and 2011 on the effects of the TPP, given that Japan recently joined the talks (see 13042208). The final report will be confidential, and is due in August 2013.
The International Trade Commission is publishing notices in the May 2 Federal Register on the following AD/CV injury, Section 337 patent, and other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will appear in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department published notices in the May 2 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):