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:
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.