U.S. Customs and Border Protection has updated its "Trade Outreach via Webinar" schedule to add a new webinar on Consumer Product Safety Commission detention notices. The webinar will take place on June 2, 2010 from 2:00-3:00.

The Foreign Agriculture Service issued the following GAIN reports:

The Food and Drug Administration has posted revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has published notice of the following voluntary recalls:

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administrator Ferro announced the addition of eight new members to the agency’s Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee. The MCSAC is charged with providing information, advice and recommendations to the FMCSA on commercial truck and bus motor carrier safety programs and regulations. The new additions help broaden committee membership.

The Bureau of Industry and Security has sent for approval to the Office of Management and Budget a final rule that would revise the EAR to expand the scope of controls over foreign-produced items that are the direct product of U.S.-origin technology, colloquially is known as the "direct product rule" among other things.

The International Trade Administration has issued the final results of its antidumping duty administrative review of hand trucks and parts thereof from China (A-570-822) for the period of December 1, 2007 through November 30, 2008.

Broker Power is now issuing weekly summary reports highlighting the most active textile and apparel tariff preference levels¹ from U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s “Quota Weekly Commodity Status Report.” BP’s weekly report also lists the TRQ commodities on CBP’s weekly “TRQ/TPL Threshold to Fill List.”

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has released the names of the Chinese drywall manufacturers whose drywall emitted high levels of hydrogen sulfide in testing conducted for the agency by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). CPSC states that there is a strong association between hydrogen sulfide and metal corrosion.

In a report to Congressional requestors, the Government Accountability Office found that the Food and Drug Agency has begun to take action to address weaknesses in its food safety scientific research and risk analysis, but that gaps remain which hamper its oversight.