The Food and Drug Administration issued its weekly Enforcement Report for April 4, 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 April 5, 2012, the Food and Drug Administration issued a monthly update to the trade on its sampling of imported orange juice products that may be contaminated with the fungicide carbendazim, which began on January 4, 2012. This update, as well as prior updates, is in the form of an addendum to a January 9, 2012 letter to the Juice Products Association. FDA is no longer sampling imported juice from domestic manufacturers.
Mexico's Diario Oficial of April 10, 2012, lists notices from the Secretary of the Economy as follows:
The Foreign Trade Zones Board is issuing the following notices for April 10, 2012:
The State Department’s Shipping Coordinating Committee will conduct an open meeting April 25, 2012 at 9:30 a.m. to prepare for the 90th Session of the International Maritime Organization's (IMO) Marine Safety Committee at the IMO Headquarters, London, U.K., May 16 - 25, 2012. Matters to be considered include, among other things, consideration and adoption of amendments to mandatory instruments; measures to enhance maritime security; goal-based new ship construction standards; ship design and equipment; safety of navigation; and dangerous goods, solid cargoes and containers.
The International Trade Commission is publishing notices in the April 10, 2012, 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 Commission announced that it has voted to conduct full five-year sunset reviews concerning the countervailing duty order on corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products from Korea and the antidumping duty orders on the same merchandise from Germany and Korea (701-TA-350, 731-TA-616, and 731-TA-618, respectively).
The International Trade Administration issued a correction to its April 2, 2012, notice of opportunity to request administrative reviews. According to the ITA, it inadvertently omitted the opportunity to request an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on ammonium nitrate from Russia (A-821-811) for the period of review 05/02/11 -- 03/31/12).
The International Trade Administration is publishing notices in the April 10, 2012, Federal Register on the following AD/CV proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CV duty rates, the scope, affected firms, or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):
The International Trade Administration issued an affirmative preliminary determination that glycine processed by two Indian companies, Salvi Chemical Industries Limited and AICO Laboratories India Ltd., and exported to the U.S. is circumventing the antidumping duty order on glycine from China (A-570-836). The ITA also said the Indian company Paras Intermediates Pvt. Ltd. is not circumventing the order because it is producing glycine from raw materials of Indian origin and exporting such merchandise to the U.S. As a result of the comments made by the parties in the circumvention inquiry with respect to substantial transformation and country of origin, and as a result of its affirmative circumvention findings in light of prior scope determinations, the ITA is initiating a scope inquiry of Chinese-origin glycine processed into a purer grade glycine in India.