The FDA on Feb. 9 released a draft guidance document on the use of sampling of fish and fishery products by importers and foreign manufacturers and processors to demonstrate the admissibility of goods subject to import alert, or to have the goods removed from an import alert.
USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation announced Feb. 8 that Special Import Quota #17 for upland cotton will be established Feb. 15, allowing importation of 6,540,756 kilograms (30,041 bales) of upland cotton, up from 6,199,761 kilograms (28,475 bales) in the previous quota period. The quota will apply to upland cotton purchased not later than May 14, 2024, and entered into the U.S. by Aug. 12, 2024. The quota is equivalent to one week's consumption of cotton by domestic mills at the seasonally adjusted average rate for the October through December 2023 period, the most recent three months for which data is available.
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 Feb. 8, 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 found substantial evidence that Exquis, Lollicup USA and Sanster evaded antidumping and countervailing duty orders covering thermal paper, the agency said. It found that all three importers evaded the orders on thermal paper from China and found that Exquis also evaded the AD order on thermal paper from South Korea, CBP said.
The annual Customs Broker permit user fee of $174.80 is due by Feb. 9 and can be paid through that date by using the eCBP portal at https://e.cbp.dhs.gov/ecbp/#/main, CBP said in a CSMS message. Permits will be revoked if the payment is not submitted in time, CBP said. The fee amount is up from last year's $163.71 (see 2311270038).
CBP is extending its Global Business Identifier pilot through Feb. 23, 2027, the agency said in a notice released Feb. 9. CBP is also removing commodity and country of origin limitations on the entries eligible for the test, it said, opening the test up to more participants across a wider range of industries.
Trade groups are telling the Consumer Product Safety Commission that its supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking on new electronic filing procedures for certificates of compliance is premature, since the beta pilot for importers e-filing CPSC certificates and the CPSC Product Registry only began late last year.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Feb. 8 on the following AD/CV duty proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CV duty rates, scope, affected firms or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department began administrative reviews for certain firms subject to antidumping duty and countervailing duty orders with December anniversary dates, it said in a notice. Producers and exporters subject to any of these administrative reviews on China must submit their separate rate certifications or applications by March 11 to avoid being assigned high China-wide rates.