On April 2, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices on April 3:
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 April 2, 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 released the quarterly IRS interest rates used to calculate interest on overdue accounts (underpayments) and refunds (overpayments) of customs duties. For the quarter that began April 1, the interest rate for overpayments is 7% for corporations and 8% for non-corporations. The rate for underpayments is 8% for both corporations and non-corporations. That's unchanged from the previous quarter.
CBP has released its April 3 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 58, No. 13). While it contains recent court decisions, no customs rulings are included.
In the March 27 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 58, No. 12), CBP published a proposal to revoke and modify ruling letters concerning an absorber crashbox and a ratchet and pawl cargo securing device.
The National Commodity Specialist Division's consumer products and mass merchandising branch has received 237 ruling requests relating to 312 products so far in FY 2024, Steve Mack, the NCSD's director, said at CBP's NCSD Trade Forum April 3. Seventy-six, or 32%, of the ruling requests were subject to trade remedies, while 64, or 27%, of the ruling requests involve country of origin scenarios, Mack said.
Experts invited by Georgetown Law's Center on Inclusive Trade and Development to talk about U.S.-China relations said a truce in the Trump trade war that has continued under President Joe Biden is unlikely, and that the trade war may intensify, no matter who the next president is.
The Canadian Ombudsman for Responsible Enterprise concluded that Dynasty Gold, a mining firm headquartered in British Columbia, allowed Uyghur labor transfers to its joint venture in Xinjiang during 2017-2020, and that such forced labor "may continue to persist" at the Hatu mine in Xinjiang.