The Farm Service Agency issued a notice specifying the fee schedule, effective April 4, 2012, for the new Export Food Aid Commodities (EFAC) licensing agreement offered by the FSA under the U.S. Warehouse Act (USWA). Agricultural products that may be stored under an EFAC licensing agreement include, but are not limited to, corn soy blend, vegetable oil, and pulses such as peas, beans, and lentils.
Brian Feito
Brian Feito is Managing Editor of International Trade Today, Export Compliance Daily and Trade Law Daily. A licensed customs broker who spent time at the Department of Commerce calculating antidumping and countervailing duties, Brian covers a wide range of subjects including customs and trade-facing product regulation, the courts, antidumping and countervailing duties and Mexico and the European Union. Brian is a graduate of the University of Florida and George Mason University. He joined the staff of Warren Communications News in 2012.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement reports that Collier Bennett Harper of Lakewood, CA, is expected to make his initial appearance in federal court Monday morning following his arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents for importing more than 1,000 counterfeit Microsoft Office CD-ROMs and selling them over the Internet. Taken into custody late Friday, Collier is charged in a four-count federal indictment following the seizure of two shipments of Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2007 software CD-ROMs. Specifically, the indictment charges Harper with two counts of trafficking counterfeit goods and two counts of smuggling. If convicted of all charges, Harper faces a maximum sentence of 60 years in federal prison.
The Foreign Agriculture Service reports that private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 165,000 metric tons of soybeans to China during the 2012/2013 marketing year. The marketing year for soybeans began September 1.
The International Trade Administration issued the final results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on freshwater crawfish tail meat from China (A-570-848) which sets an AD cash deposit rate for two exporters and rescinds this administrative review with respect to three exporters1. These rates, which are effective April 10, 2012, are expected to be implemented by U.S. Customs and Border Protection soon.
The International Trade Commission announced that it has voted to conduct full five-year sunset reviews concerning the countervailing duty order on corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products from Korea and the antidumping duty orders on the same merchandise from Germany and Korea (701-TA-350, 731-TA-616, and 731-TA-618, respectively).
The International Trade Administration issued the final results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain cut-to-length carbon-quality steel plate products from Korea (A-580-836) which sets an AD cash deposit rate for one manufacturer/exporter. This rate, which is effective April 10, 2012, is expected to be implemented by U.S. Customs and Border Protection soon.
The International Trade Administration issued an affirmative preliminary determination that glycine processed by two Indian companies, Salvi Chemical Industries Limited and AICO Laboratories India Ltd., and exported to the U.S. is circumventing the antidumping duty order on glycine from China (A-570-836). The ITA also said the Indian company Paras Intermediates Pvt. Ltd. is not circumventing the order because it is producing glycine from raw materials of Indian origin and exporting such merchandise to the U.S. As a result of the comments made by the parties in the circumvention inquiry with respect to substantial transformation and country of origin, and as a result of its affirmative circumvention findings in light of prior scope determinations, the ITA is initiating a scope inquiry of Chinese-origin glycine processed into a purer grade glycine in India.
The Food and Drug Administration issued its weekly Enforcement Report for April 4, 2012 that lists the status of recalls and field corrections for food, drugs, biologics, and devices. The report covers both domestic and foreign firms.
During the week of April 2 through April 8, 2012, the Food and Drug Administration modified the following existing Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Web site as of April 6, 2012, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching on the listed CBP message number at http://addcvd.cbp.gov.