Mayur Patel, former chief international trade counsel to the chair of the Senate Finance Committee, has joined Hogan Lovells as a partner in the international trade and investment practice, the firm announced. As a Senate staffer, Patel played a key role in overseeing "major Trump-era trade measures," the firm said. Prior to joining the Senate, Patel worked as associate general counsel in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.
Departing Federal Maritime Commission Chair Louis Sola criticized a new global emissions framework adopted earlier this year by the International Maritime Organization's Marine Environment Protection Committee, saying it will "unfairly" tax American cargo on the high seas. Sola suggested the rules should be investigated.
The Federal Maritime Commission is asking for public comments on several information collections related to marine terminal operator schedules, service contracts, non-vessel-operating common carrier service arrangements and negotiated rate agreements. Comments are due July 31, it said in a Federal Register notice.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the June 30 Federal Register on the following antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) injury, Section 337 patent or other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register June 30 on the following antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CVD rates, scope, affected firms or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission began five-year sunset reviews of the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on carbon and certain alloy steel wire rod from Brazil (A-351-832/C-351-833); utility scale wind towers from Canada (A-122-867/C-122-868) and Vietnam (A-552-825/C-552-826); light-walled rectangular pipe and tube from China (A-570-914/C-570-915); and oil country tubular goods from India (A-533-857/C-533-858) and Turkey (A-489-816/C-489-817); as well as the antidumping duty orders on carbon and certain alloy steel wire rod from Indonesia (A-560-815), Mexico (A-201-830), Moldova (A-841-805) and Trinidad and Tobago (A-274-804); utility scale wind towers from Indonesia (A-560-833) and South Korea (A-580-902); barium carbonate from China (A-570-880); ferrovanadium from China (A-570-873) and South Africa (A-791-815); light-walled rectangular pipe and tube from South Korea (A-580-859), Mexico (A-201-836) and Turkey (A-489-815); tow-behind lawn groomers and parts thereof from China (A-570-939); and oil country tubular goods from South Korea (A-580-870), Ukraine (A-823-815) and Vietnam (A-552-817), Commerce said in a notice June 2.
On June 27, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service is amending federal meat inspection regulations to remove the provisions for FSIS’s sampling and testing of pumped bacon for nitrosamines, it said in a Federal Register notice. FSIS stopped sampling for nitrosamines in 1998, the notice said. This rule is effective on July 1.
Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-S.D., introduced a bill June 26 that would reauthorize the Federal Maritime Commission from FY 2026 to FY 2029 and give the agency several new tools to protect ocean shipping.
The Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force failed to undertake a transparent process in considering exporter Ninestar's application for delisting from the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List, Ninestar told the Court of International Trade on June 26. Ninestar said FLETF's process was neither "fair, transparent," nor "productive," and led the task force to ignore its obligations and the company's rights under the Administrative Procedure Act (Ninestar Corp. v. United States, CIT # 23-00182).