The Fish and Wildlife Service is working on improvements to its eDecs system that include bulk entry of fish and wildlife species on import and export declarations, the agency told commenters on the declarations in an Oct. 5 notice.

CBP has seen a decrease of over 61% in importer responses to CBP Form 28 Requests for Information since around the time when it began implementing the Centers of Excellence and Expertise, it said in a final rule released Oct. 4 that finalizes the agency’s interim regulations establishing the Centers.

Aluminum extrusions from 14 more countries -- as well as additional types of aluminum extrusions from China -- face the imposition of antidumping and countervailing duties after a U.S. producer coalition and a labor union filed petitions for new AD/CVD investigations with the Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission on Oct. 4.

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The Senate co-sponsors of the Shop Safe bill, recently reintroduced, said that they want critics of the bill to give specific feedback, rather than try to kill the bill.

The sole member of the Ways and Means Committee who sits on the House Select Committee on China, along with the committee's chairman, are asking the Department of Homeland Security to brief them on how it's investigating allegations of trade fraud, and to allay their concerns that customs fraud is not being enforced.

The upcoming, near-certain government shutdown should last at least one week, and has a good chance of lasting three weeks or more, said Nicole Bivens Collinson, legislative counsel for the National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America, speaking on a call hosted by the NCBFAA Sept. 29.

A vote for a 30-day temporary spending bill, which proposed major changes to the administration's immigration policies and cut spending by $10 billion in that month, failed 198-232, with 21 Republicans voting no. The spending cuts spared Department of Homeland Security, defense spending and funding for veterans. As a result, the other discretionary spending would have been cut 29.9% below current levels.

Moving manufacturing from China to another Asian country is not the way to "get ahead of the game" in avoiding forced labor detentions, said Amanda Levitt, a Sandler Travis lawyer, while speaking during a virtual Sourcemap conference on supply chain transparency. Levitt said that tracing falls apart for most firms at the Tier 2 level, and that's not enough. Many of the items identified by nongovernmental organizations as being produced with Uyghur forced labor -- cotton, aluminum, PVC -- are raw materials much deeper than tier 2.

Canadian leaders with an interest in trading with the U.S. are looking South with trepidation, realizing that President Donald Trump could be back in office in 2026, when all three countries will have to agree to continue the NAFTA successor.