The Foreign Trade Zone Board has issued the following notice:

The State Department announces that the Government of the Republic of Nicaragua has proposed to extend its agreement with the U.S. concerning the imposition of import restrictions on archaeological material from the pre-Hispanic cultures of Nicaragua, and possible additional restrictions on certain ethnological material.

The Bureau of Industry and Security is issuing correcting amendments to its June 4, 2010 final rule which clarified language regarding certain performance criteria of turning machines, among other things. BIS corrects the NS Column number under ECCN 2B001, and inserts quotation marks around "APP" in the Technical Note on Adjusted Peak Performance.

The Office of Foreign Assets Control is publishing the names of 2 individuals and 2 entities in Mexico whose property and interests in property have been blocked pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act, effective June 9, 2010.

The Office of Foreign Assets Control is publishing the names of five individuals in Colombia and Ecuador whose property and interests in property have been unblocked pursuant to Executive Order 12978, "Blocking Assets and Prohibiting Transactions With Significant Narcotics Traffickers," effective June 10, 2010.

The Federal Maritime Commission announces the filing of an amendment to an agreement of the Pacific Maritime Association concerning assessments to pay International Longshore and Warehouse Union employee benefit costs, which revises how the man-hour base assessment will be calculated. Comments are due by June 28, 2010.

The Department of Defense's Civilian Agency Acquisition Council and Defense Acquisition Regulations Council have adopted as final, without change, an interim rule amending the Federal Acquisition Regulation to add Taiwan to the list of World Trade Organization Government Procurement Agreement designated countries.

The National Marine Fisheries Service has granted an affirmative finding to the Government of Mexico under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, which allows certain yellowfin tuna harvested by Mexican-flag purse seine vessels or purse seine vessels operating under Mexican jurisdiction to continue to be imported into the U.S. The finding is effective April 1, 2010-March 31, 2015, subject to annual review.

On June 14, 2010, in San Francisco, California, the U.S. Trade Representative and agency partners across the Obama Administration hosted the first day of the second round of negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement. The round began with a plenary meeting of all negotiators present from the eight TPP partner countries. The opening plenary was an overview of goals for the week’s talks: determining a framework for market access negotiations and the relationship between the TPP agreement and pre-existing FTAs, and defining a path forward on so-called “horizontal” issues including small business priorities, regulatory coherence, competitiveness, supply chains, development, and regional integration. Negotiators also discussed the amount of progress they hope to make this week in order to be in a position to begin drafting text before the third round of TPP talks in October.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has posted the comments of Chairman Tenenbaum before the European Parliament's Internal Market and Consumer Affairs Committee on June 10, 2010.