FDA has issued its Enforcement Report for Sept. 29, listing the status of recalls and field corrections for food, cosmetics, tobacco products, drugs, biologics and devices. The report covers both domestic and foreign firms.
FDA has issued its Enforcement Report for Sept. 22, listing the status of recalls and field corrections for food, cosmetics, tobacco products, drugs, biologics and devices. The report covers both domestic and foreign firms.
The Environmental Protection Agency on Sept. 23 released a final rule that sets a quota system for imports of hydrofluorocarbons that will eventually reduce imports of the greenhouse gases by 85 percent by 2036. The new regulations provide for company-specific allocations of allowances to import HFCs in 2022 and 2023, with allowances after that to be set in a future Federal Register notice. EPA intends to issue 2022 allowances by Oct. 1, it said in the final rule, which has yet to be scheduled for publication.
More than 190 solar companies sent a letter Sept. 22 to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo urging the rejection of requests to begin anti-circumvention inquiries on solar cells and panels from Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. “Steep duties proposed by an anonymous group of petitioners would devastate thousands of U.S. solar companies and cause the industry to miss out on 18 gigawatts (GW) of solar deployment by 2023,” the Solar Energy Industries Association said in a press release.
As the sixth implementation phase of Lacey Act declaration requirements for plants and plant products approaches Oct. 1, officials with the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service reminded importers and exporters that more phases are to come before the agency meets its statutorily required goal of subjecting all plants and plant products to Lacey Act enforcement.
Importers should be reviewing existing tariff classifications for their products and planning ahead for major changes to the tariff schedule that will take effect Jan. 1 when the U.S. implements 2022 changes to the global Harmonized System, Flexport’s Adam Dambrov said during a Sept. 15 webinar. Particularly affected by the changes are goods of chapters 44, 84 and 85, with some changes to chapter notes also resulting in changes for textiles and apparel.
The Commerce Department will change its scope ruling procedures so that entries prior to the initiation of the scope inquiry are normally subject to suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements, but in a change from a 2020 proposal, will allow for requests to suspend liquidation at a later date, it said in a final rule amending its antidumping and countervailing duty regulations released Sept. 16.
Craft dowels from Greenbrier International and Family Dollar Services are covered by antidumping and countervailing duties on wood mouldings and millwork from China (A-570-117/C-570-118), the Commerce Department said in a Sept. 7 scope ruling. Dowels are named in the scope as subject merchandise, and no exemption exists for wood products used in arts and crafts, Commerce said.
CBP is ending a forced labor finding on disposable gloves made by Top Glove in Malaysia, after finding the company submitted enough evidence that its disposable gloves are no longer being made with forced labor, CBP said in a notice. Effective on the notice’s date of publication, scheduled for Sept. 10, disposable gloves made by Top Glove in Malaysia will no longer be subject to detention, seizure and forfeiture under the forced labor finding.
Panels need only two layers of veneer to be subject to antidumping and countervailing duties on hardwood plywood from China (A-570-051/C-570-052), the Commerce Department said in a preliminary scope ruling issued Aug. 26. Chinese two-ply panels processed into plywood in Vietnam by adding face and back veneers, then exported by Finewood Company Limited, a Vietnamese exporter implicated in an Enforce and Protect Act evasion investigation, are still of Chinese origin after the processing and are covered by AD/CV duties, Commerce said. Comments are due on or about Sept. 15.