The Bureau of Industry and Security announced a partially open meeting of its Sensors and Instrumentation Technical Advisory Committee for May 1, 2012, in Washington, DC. The Committee advises the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Export Administration on technical questions that affect the level of export controls applicable to sensors and instrumentation equipment and technology. During the open session, the committee will hear remarks from BIS, have industry presentations, and discuss new business.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is inviting recommendations and suggestions for workshops covering specific sectors and targeted countries or regions where training in the U.S. approaches to development and use of standards may facilitate trade, increase U.S. exports, and/or benefit U.S. industry. NIST will offer a limited number of these Standards in Trade (SIT) workshops each year, which are designed to introduce U.S. stakeholders to emerging standards and conformity assesment in other countries and regions; identify regulatory information and market access issues; etc. Recommendations may be submitted at any time and will be considered on a quarterly basis.
The International Trade Administration issued the final results of its antidumping duty changed circumstances review of certain frozen warmwater shrimp from Vietnam (A-552-802). The ITA determined that C. P. Vietnam Corporation is the successor-in-interest to C. P. Vietnam Livestock Corporation. As such, the ITA will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection to apply the same AD cash deposit rate in effect for C.P. Livestock (1.04%) to all entries of subject merchandise from C.P. Vietnam that were entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after April 18, 2012.
The International Trade Commission determined that a U.S. industry is not materially injured or threatened with material injury by reason of imports of bottom mount refrigerator-freezers from Korea that the International Trade Administration has determined are subsidized and from Korea and Mexico that the ITA has determined are sold in the United States at less than fair value.
The International Trade Commission determined that a U.S. industry is not materially injured or threatened with material injury by reason of imports of certain steel wheels from China that the International Trade Administration has determined are subsidized and sold in the U.S. at less than fair value.
On April 16 and 17, 2012, the Foreign Agricultural Service issued the following GAIN reports:
The Department of Agriculture announced a fiscal year 2012 raw sugar tariff-rate quota increase of 420,000 short tons raw value (SRTV) (reassigned from FY 2012 surplus allocations from the cane sugar domestic marketing allotment), effective April 19, 2012.
The Bureau of Industry and Security is amending its Temporary Denial Order (TDO) denying the export privileges of Mahan Airways; Zarand Aviation; Gatewick LLC; Pejman Mahmood Kosarayanifard; Mahmoud Amini; Kerman Aviation, Sirjanco Trading; and Ali Eslamian to add the following additional respondents in order to prevent evasion of the TDO: Mahan Air General Trading LLC of the UAE; Skyco (UK) Ltd. of the UK; and Equipco (UK) Ltd. of the UK. The order is currently in effect until August 13, 2012, unless renewed.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Web site as of April 16, 2012, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching on the listed CBP message number at http://addcvd.cbp.gov.
During the week of April 10 through April 16, 2012, the Food and Drug Administration modified the following existing Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of: