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 issued a notice of its provisional acceptance of a settlement agreement and an order containing a civil penalty against Target Corporation for allegedly violating the lead paint ban of 16 CFR Part 1303.
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 recall:
The Office of Foreign Assets Control is removing the names of three individuals in Indonesia and the Philippines from the list of Specially Designated Nationals and blocked persons whose property and interests in property have been blocked under Executive Order 13224 on terrorism, effective May 6, 2010. (OFAC notice, FR Pub 05/12/10, available at http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/pdf/2010-11220.pdf)
The Office of Foreign Assets Control is publishing the names of three individuals and three entities in Colombia and Spain whose property and interests in property have been unblocked pursuant to Executive Order 12978, "Blocking Assets and Prohibiting Transactions With Significant Narcotics Traffickers," effective May 6, 2010. (OFAC notice, FR Pub 05/12/10, available at http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/pdf/2010-11221.pdf)
The Foreign Agricultural Service has posted a circular on the world market for cotton, which states that stocks are tightening worldwide as consumption outpaces increases in production. A second circular states that world production has jumped 11 percent. FAS also states that the gap between global production and consumption of grain has narrowed. A second report on Nigerian wheat imports is also available.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is advising the public of its decision to begin issuing permits, effective May 12, 2010, for the importation into the continental U.S. of fresh pomegranates and fresh baby kiwi from Chile based on the findings of pest risk analyses. (APHIS notice, FR Pub 05/12/10, available at http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/pdf/2010-11438.pdf)
The Department of Homeland Security's Homeland Security Advisory Council will meet via teleconference for the purpose of reviewing the final report of the HSAC’s Quadrennial (Homeland Security) Review Advisory Committee on May 27, 2010. Written comments are due by May 20, 2010. (DHS notice, FR Pub 05/12/10, available at http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/pdf/2010-11293.pdf)