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.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on welded carbon steel standard pipes and tubes from India (A-533-502). The review began with 30 companies. In the preliminary results, Commerce determined to rescind the review for 29 of those companies because petitioner Nucor Tubular Products Inc., a domestic interested party, withdrew its request for an administrative review of them. The remaining company, Surya Roshni Limited, was preliminarily found to have no subject shipments during the period of review, May 1, 2022, through April 30, 2023, but will remain under review for appropriate instructions to be issued to CBP in the final results of the review, due in June.
The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on certain metal lockers and parts thereof from China (A-570-133). Commerce will assess AD at rates determined in these final results on subject merchandise from the companies under review entered Feb. 11, 2021, through July 31, 2022.
The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on electrolytic manganese dioxide from China (A-570-919). Commerce continued to find that the one company under review -- Duracell (China) Limited (DCL) -- isn't eligible for a separate rate and is part of the China-wide entity, with an AD rate of 149.92%.
EPA recently released a new guidance document on “absence of an ingredient” claims in products regulated under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act. The agency said it will review such claims on pesticide labeling on a “case-by-case basis,” and provided examples of acceptable and unacceptable “absence of an ingredient claims” for bleach, phosphates and N,N-diethyl-meta-toluamide (DEET). The guidance document also “outlines the actions that may be taken by applicants and registrants who wish to modify their registrations or applications based on this guidance.”
On Feb. 7, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of: