On May 30, 2012, 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 issued its weekly Enforcement Report for May 30, 2012, that lists the status of recalls and field corrections for food, drugs, biologics, and devices. The report covers both domestic and foreign firms.
On May 30, 2012, the Foreign Agricultural Service issued the following GAIN reports:
On May 25, 2012, the Foreign Agricultural Service published its 2012 World Trade Organization safeguard trigger levels in the Federal Register. However, FAS said the attached annex, which lists the quantity trigger levels for additional duties to be imposed on some products pursuant to the WTO Agreement on Agriculture, erroneously listed the quantity triggers and time periods from last year. FAS said they will publish a correction in the Federal Register soon.
The Food Safety and Inspection Service confirmed that it will implement routine verification testing for six Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC), in addition to E. coli O157:H7, in raw beef manufacturing trimmings. Beginning June 4, FSIS will implement routine verification testing for six additional STECs (O26, O45, O103, O111, O121, and O145) in raw beef manufacturing trimmings (domestic or imported) derived from cattle slaughtered on or after June 4, 2012.
Two entries on the List of Validated End Users at Supplement 7 to 15 CFR Part 748 for National Semiconductor Hong Kong Limited have been removed from the list of eligible destinations in column 4 of the Supplement. BIS said that this correction to the CFR is pursuant to its November 9, 2011 final rule that removed National Semiconductor from the list of VEUs.
The Census Bureau posted a brief educational guide, as part of its monthly series “Trade Term of the Month”, on the term “ITN”, the Internal Transaction Number confirming that the Electronic Export Information (EEI) reported in the Automated Export System (AES) has been accepted. The guide includes an explanation of where the ITN is required, as well as exceptions to inclusion of the ITN.
The Court of International Trade remanded part of the International Trade Administration’s final results of the 2008-09 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain orange juice from Brazil (A-351-840), in order for the ITA to reconsider its decision to include currency translation when calculating Brazilian plaintiff Fischer S.A. Comercio, Industria and Agricultura’s constructed value, and to reconsider its decision to apply zeroing methodology. However, CIT rejected Fischer’s other challenges of the ITA’s constructed value corporation.
The International Trade Commission’s decision to revoke the antidumping duty order on magnesium metal from Russia was upheld by the Court of International Trade. Plaintiff US Magnesium LLC challenged the ITC’s negative injury determination in its 2010 sunset review of the AD order with respect to its decision not to conduct its injury determination based on the combined (“cumulated”) imports of magnesium from Russia and China, as well as its determination to revoke the AD order with respect to Russia. CIT said the ITC’s decision not to combine Russian and Chinese imports, as well as its decision to revoke the AD order, were both supported by substantial evidence, including, among other things, the decline of the Russian magnesium industry and the different uses for Russian and Chinese magnesium.
The Court of International Trade affirmed the International Trade Administration’s voluntary remand redetermination of the final results of the 2007-08 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on frozen warmwater shrimp from Vietnam (A-552-802). The ITA had requested the voluntary remand to correct the methodology it used to determine the AD rate for 16 non-individually selected separate rate respondents, pursuant to earlier CIT rulings against this methodology with respect to the 2006-07 review of the same AD order.