The Foreign Trade Zones Board announced its new mailing address. The change reflects a move within the same building. Any written correspondence or submissions to FTZB should be sent to the following address:
The Census Bureau will develop a pilot program similar to the now-defunct option 3 filing procedure following publication of its Foreign Trade Regulations rewrite, said a Census official at the Sept. 11 meeting of the Regulations and Procedures Technical Advisory Committee. The rewrite is “extremely close to getting official concurrence,” she said, and Census hopes for publication of the final rule this fall. The pilot, which will be open to all exporters, will provide an option similar to option 4 postdeparture filing, but include limited filing of information before export.
A New York City couple pleaded guilty to conspiring to import misclassified merchandise in a scheme to import and sell counterfeit Nike sneakers, said Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. ICE alleged that Ling Zhen Hu, 51, worked for an individual who imported thousands of pairs of sneakers from China that bore the Nike “swoosh” logo and Nike labeling, but were not genuine Nike sneakers. Hu then negotiated the sale of large quantities of the mislabeled sneakers to a Montreal man, Malik Bazzi, who then sold them to customers throughout the U.S. via his warehouses in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Hu’s husband, Xiao Cheng Lin, 50, delivered the sneakers to Bazzi, ICE said. According to ICE, the investigation revealed that Bazzi’s customers then sold the counterfeit Nike sneakers on the street and in retail stores for about half the price of genuine Nike sneakers.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's website Sept. 11, 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 http://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.)
Better targeting by the Bureau of Industry and Security is leading to higher “unfavorable rates” for foreign end use verifications, said Jose Rodriguez, director of the International Operations Division at the BIS Office of Enforcement Analysis. Speaking at the Sept. 11 meeting of the Regulations and Procedures Technical Advisory Committee, Rodriguez said the past three years have seen unfavorable rates in the range of 20 to 21 percent, compared to unfavorable rates of 9 to 11 percent in the three preceding years. The new emphasis has allowed OEA to identify more red flags and best practices that it will later make available, he said.
Mexico's Diario Oficial of Sept. 11, lists notices from the Secretary of the Economy as follows:
The International Trade Commission is publishing notices in the Sept. 11 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 Sept. 11 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):
On Sept. 10 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
During the week of Sept. 3-9, 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: