The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices on Jan. 23:
U.S. companies can temporarily import certain controlled firearms they previously exported to Ukraine in order to service or repair them, the Bureau of Industry and Security clarified as part of a broader Russia-related final rule released Jan. 23. BIS said those firearms can be temporarily imported under License Exception RPL (Replacement of Parts and Equipment) as long as they were originally exported under a BIS license.
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative notified CBP that liquidation can resume for goods imported from the Autoliv Steering Wheels facility in El Marques, Mexico.
A bipartisan letter from 10 senators urges the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to work on a process to expand the Seafood Import Monitoring Program (SIMP), including by setting clearer criteria for determining which species are covered by SIMP and adding forced labor as a factor.
The following lawsuit was filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Jan. 15-21.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Jan. 22, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at CBP's ADCVD Search page.
CBP will upgrade the ACE Reports application to run on SAP Business Objects 4.3 on Jan. 27. The upgrade will involve changes to the user interface, the agency said in a Jan. 23 CSMS message. CBP will hold a pre-deployment support call for the trade community at 1 p.m. EST Jan. 25. It will host a live demonstration call at 2 p.m. EST Jan. 31. A post-deployment support call at 2 p.m. EST Feb. 1 will be in combination with the biweekly trade call scheduled for that day.
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A joint report from Sheffield Hallam University's Laura Murphy, now at DHS, as well as Anti-Slavery International and the Investor Alliance for Human Rights, doesn't name any new sectors or firms with exposure to Uyghur forced labor, but offers resources for those wishing to avoid that risk in either the solar panel or electric vehicle battery sector.