The U.S. and India concluded their first Strategic Dialogue between Secretary of State Clinton and India External Affairs Minister Krishna on June 1-4, 2010. Topics included advancing global security and countering terrorism, information technology and cyberspace, and trade and economic relations. Both committed to approach the issue of export controls for high technology products as a strategic partnership.

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 data listed below is current as of June 4, 2010.

The International Trade Administration has issued a fact sheet announcing its affirmative preliminary determination in the countervailing duty investigation of drill pipe from China.

The Directorate of Defense Trade Controls has updated its guidance on supporting documentation for DSP-73 (temporary export) and DSP-61 (temporary import) license applications, in order to remove paper transmittal letter instructions, as all license applications must now be submitted electronically via D-Trade2.

The Food Safety and Inspection Service has released a draft document¹ on U.S. positions for the 33rd session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC or Codex)² in Switzerland in July 2010. The document was discussed during FSIS’ June 8, 2010 public meeting seeking comment on the draft U.S. positions.

The Bureau of Industry and Security has announced that it will be holding its Annual Update Conference on Export Controls and Policy on August 31 - September 2, 2010 in Washington, DC.

The Federal Highway Administration has issued a press release announcing that has launched a new web-based tool, FPMweb, to pinpoint freight congestion.

The U.S. Trade Representative announced that on June 8, 2010, the U.S. and the European Union signed an agreement designed to lead to settlement of the longstanding dispute brought by certain Latin American countries and the U.S. over the EU's bananas trading regime.

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has announced the conclusion of the 2010 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Ministers Responsible for Trade meeting that was held in Sapporo, Japan on June 5-6, 2010.

The Foreign Agriculture Service issued the following GAIN reports: