The International Trade Administration has issued the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review of corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products from Korea for the period of January 1, 2007 through December 31, 2007.
During the Bureau of Industry and Security's Update Conference on Export Controls on September 30-October 2, 2009, various officials from BIS, the Census Bureau, the State Department, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and other agencies gave presentations on various topics.
The World Customs Organization states that at the 8th Asia-Europe Customs DGs/Commissioners Meeting held in Greece on October 15-16, 2009, members adopted the ASEM Trade Facilitation Action Plan on Customs Matters (TFAP) for 2010-2012, which includes enhanced dialogue with business and exploration of the possibility to implement pre-arrival and pre-departure security declaration in line with SAFE Framework of Standards. (Report, posted 10/20/09, available at http://www.wcoomd.org/speeches/?v=1&lid=1&cid=2&id=172)
The Bureau of Industry and Security has adopted as final, with some changes, its October 2008 interim final rule amending the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to make the treatment of encryption items (EIs) more consistent with the treatment of other items subject to the EAR, as well as to simplify and clarify regulations pertaining to the export of EIs.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission will hold a second meeting that is open to the public on October 21, 2009 to discuss the following Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA1) issues (four of which were discussed at the October 14, 2009 CPSC public meeting):
The International Trade Administration has issued the final results of an antidumping duty changed circumstances review of certain frozen warmwater shrimp from Thailand.
During the October 14, 2009 Consumer Product Safety Commission open meeting to discuss various issues,1 including a request for an exclusion from the lead content limits of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (CPSIA) for brass wheel parts of toy tractors, Commissioner statements indicate a possible shift in CPSC thinking on exclusion requests.
The International Trade Administration has issued the final results of its antidumping duty administrative review of non-frozen apple juice concentrate from China for the period of June 1, 2007 through May 31, 2008.
The "Buy American" provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 ("Stimulus Bill") prohibit, with certain exceptions1, Recovery Act funds from being used for a project or public work unless all of the iron, steel, and other manufactured goods used as construction material in the project are produced or manufactured in the U.S.