Republican members of the House Energy and Commerce's Health Subcommittee criticized the FDA's Center for Tobacco Products for giving its blessing to so few vaping delivery systems and liquids put in electronic cigarettes, saying that the vast black market of vaping products is benefiting China, and that having so few legitimate products available makes it more dangerous for smokers who are wanting to switch from cigarettes to vaping, which is less harmful to their health.
An effort by CBP and the Transportation Security Administration to improve the monitoring of imported air cargo through modifications in data collection is creating confusion among airforwarders and reportedly causing airlines to think twice about delivering cargo to the U.S. and Canada.
Ferrosilicon: Prelim CVD Rates Take Effect for Brazil, Kazakhstan and Malaysia; Retroactive for Some
The Commerce Department is setting new countervailing duty cash deposit requirements for imports of ferrosilicon from Brazil (C-351-861), Kazakhstan (C-834-813) and Malaysia (C-557-829), after finding countervailable subsidization of producers and exporters in the three countries in the preliminary determinations of its CVD investigations. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements will generally take effect for entries on or after Sept. 10, the date that the preliminary determinations were published in the Federal Register, but Commerce is making the suspension of liquidation and CVD cash deposits retroactive to approximately June 12 for some Brazilian and Malaysian companies.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
On Sept. 6, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
Former President Donald Trump, at a campaign rally over the weekend in Wisconsin, said he would impose a 100% tariff on goods from countries that "leave the dollar."
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service is unlikely to extend once more the deadline for filing certificates in ACE on all entries of organic products, an official of the program said Aug. 29 during a webinar on the AMS’ national organic program, hosted by the Los Angeles Customs Brokers & Freight Forwarders Association.
National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told China's foreign minister that the U.S. is still concerned about the Chinese government's "unfair trade policies and non-market economic practices," according to a White House readout that focused more on military and law enforcement issues than trade.
CBP still hasn't been able to properly police fraud in drawback claims, where importers claim drawback funds for merchandise that was never exported, the Government Accountability Office says in a summary of unresolved recommendations for the Department of Homeland Security.