During the week of Jan. 7-13, the Food and Drug Administration modified the following existing Import Alerts (not otherwise listed on the FDA's new and revised import alerts page) on the detention without physical examination and/or surveillance of:
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued the January Interstate Certified Shellfish Shippers List (ICSSL). The ICSSL is published monthly for the information and use by food control officers, the seafood industry and other interested persons. The shippers listed have been certified by regulatory authorities in the U.S., Canada, Chile, Korea, Mexico and New Zealand under the uniform sanitation requirements of the National Shellfish Program.
On Jan. 14 the Foreign Agricultural Service issued the following GAIN reports:
The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for Jan. 15:
The Bureau of Industry and Security issued a final rule, effective Jan. 16, amending the list of eligible destinations for three Authorization Validated End-User listings at Supplement No. 7 to Part 748 of the Export Administration Regulations, and removing an eligible ECCN for one of the VEUs. The final rule also adds a statement clarifying that language in the VEU supplement doesn’t supersede other EAR requirements. These changes are not because of activities of concern, but instead arise from the companies’ normal course of business or company requests, BIS said.
The Bureau of Industry and Security issued a final rule, effective Jan. 16, removing from the Entity List four persons, modifying one entry, and removing another redundant entry. Some of these changes resulted from the End-user Review Committee’s annual review of entities in the United Arab Emirates, Armenia, Cyprus, France, and Iran.
RichTek filed a cross-appeal with the Federal Circuit of the International Trade Commission’s Section 337 patent enforcement case on certain DC-DC controllers and products containing same (337-TA-698). In the ITC’s final determination, it levied a $620,000 fine against uPI Semiconductor for violations of a consent order. The administrative law judge had originally recommended a $750,000 fine. uPI Semiconductor filed its appeal Jan. 11.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's website Jan. 14, 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 Center for Food Safety moved for judgment Jan. 11 in its action to compel the Food and Drug Administration to issue seven long-overdue regulations required by the Food Safety Modernization Act.1 The non-profit is seeking court orders from the Northern California District Court mandating a timetable for FDA implementation of FSMA provisions on produce safety, Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventative Controls, the Foreign Supplier Verification Program, and third-party auditing, among other things. “Congress enacted FSMA to end the ongoing epidemic of food contamination in our country and its concomitant harms to our nation’s health and economy,” CFS said. “Yet, without its implementing regulations, the statute is an empty vessel.”
The United States Association of Importers of Textiles and Apparel posted presentation slides from its Jan. 9 annual conference in New York. Presenters spoke on the following topics during the conference: