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:
On April 17, 2012, the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
James Dinkins, Executive Associate Director of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), was elected chair of the World Customs Organization's (WCO) enforcement committee at its four-day meeting in Brussels, Belgium. The committee was established in 1983 to develop strategies to combat customs offenses.
Mexico's Diario Oficial of April 17, 2012, lists notices from the Secretary of the Economy as follows:
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is seeking additional comments by May 17, 2012, on the extension of its existing information collection on identification of imported explosives materials.
The Foreign Trade Zones Board is issuing the following notices for April 17, 2012:
The International Trade Commission is publishing notices in the April 17, 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 said it will not review the administrative law judge's(ALJ) finding of violations of section 337 in the importation into the U.S., the sale for importation, and the sale within the U.S. after importation of certain handbags, luggage, accessories, and packaging thereof, by reason of infringement of trademarks held by Louis Vuitton Malletier S.A. of France and Louis Vuitton U.S. Manufacturing, Inc. of San Dimas, CA (337-TA-754). The ALJ's initial determination also recommended that the ITC issue a general exclusion order and set a bond of 100% during the period of Presidential review.
The International Trade Commission voted to institute an investigation of certain food waste disposers and components and packaging thereof (337-TA-838). The products at issue in this investigation are undersink-mounted food waste disposers.