A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's website Feb. 4, 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 Consumer Product Safety Commission has been working with CBP for “quite some time” on electronic filing of CPSC product compliance certificates with entry documents, a commission official told us. The form that electronic filing will take, however, has yet to be decided, she said. “In terms of the actual framework, when the rule actually does go out for comment, we’re hoping to gain comment from the trade community on what is the best way.”
The International Trade Commission is publishing notices in the Feb. 4 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 International Trade Administration published notices in the Feb. 4 Federal Register on the following AD/CV 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 International Trade Administration issued a countervailing order on certain steel wire garment hangers from Vietnam (C-552-813). The order details a "gap period" of Oct. 2 -- Jan. 31 of no CV duty liability due to the expiration of the provisional measures period. Also, CV cash deposits collected between March 6 and June 3 will be refunded because of the International Trade Commission's determination of no critical circumstances.
The International Trade Administration issued an antidumping duty order on steel wire garment hangers from Vietnam (A-552-812). The order details a two-day "gap period" of Jan. 30-31 of no AD duty liability due to the expiration of the provisional measures period. Also, AD cash deposits collected between May 4 and Aug. 1, 2012 will be refunded because of the International Trade Commission's determination of no critical circumstances.
On Feb. 1 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The Food and Drug Administration warned Italian device manufacturer Spes Medica Srl that its Battipaglia, Italy, facility isn’t conforming to current good manufacturing practice requirements. Requests for premarket approvals and government certificates related to the violative devices, electromyography needles, may be denied unless the violations are corrected, FDA said.
The Food and Drug Administration may refuse imports of Taiwanese pharmaceutical company Beanne Chemical Co.’s products, it said in a warning letter. An FDA inspection found numerous current good manufacturing practice regulations, and discovered that the company was not meeting registration and listing requirements, the letter said. FDA gave the facility 15 days to either respond with corrective actions or notify FDA it no longer produces the violative products.
The Food and Drug Administration finalized its new criteria for ordering administrative detention of food for human or animal consumption, adopting a May 4, 2011, interim final rule without change. Under the criteria adopted by FDA, the agency can order an administrative detention if there is “reason to believe that an article of food is adulterated or misbranded.” Although the criteria have been in effect since July 3, 2011, this final rule is effective Feb. 5.