USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is updating regulations on the movement of certain genetically modified organisms issued under the authority of the Plant Protection Act, according to a Federal Register notice. The update will amend the regulations to account for a federal court's December vacatur of a May 2020 rule revising APHIS' regulations on moving genetically modified organisms. The rule is effective June 16.
The Commerce Department is accepting applications from automakers with U.S. assembly operations, it announced in a June 13 Federal Register notice.
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is seeking comments on whether member countries of the Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI) are meeting the criteria for their inclusion, as well as comments on CBI's operations itself, it said in a Federal Register notice.
Senators and witnesses called for legislative action to combat imports of seafood caught with forced labor during a June 12 hearing.
Importer Monarch Metals told the Court of International Trade that its stainless steel wire imports are products of Japan and not China, meaning its goods were improperly subjected to Section 301 and Section 232 tariffs. In a complaint filed June 13, Monarch Metals said that under CBP's prior application of the substantial transformation test to steel wire, no substantial transformation occurs by drawing steel rod into steel wire (Monarch Metals v. United States, CIT # 24-00266).
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 June 12, 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 has released its June 11 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 59, No. 24). While it contains no ruling notices, it includes five Court of International Trade slip opinions.
CBP is planning to deploy an enhancement in the ACE PRODUCTION environment on June 28 that will increase the number of Harmonized Tariff Schedule numbers allowed per entry summary line, from eight HTS numbers to 16 HTS numbers, according to a June 13 cargo systems message.
For derivative aluminum imports where the country of smelt and cast isn't known, importers should report "unknown" and Section 232 duties of 200% will be assessed, CBP said in a June 13 cargo systems message.