- FTZ 40- Site Renumbering Notice: Foreign Trade Zone 40; Cleveland, OH
The Foreign Agriculture Service issued the following GAIN reports:
The National Institute of Standards and Technology posts drafts and changes to foreign technical regulations for manufactured products which may be considered technical barriers to trade and are therefore required to be reported to the World Trade Organization, which distributes the information to WTO Member countries.
The State Department, World Health Organization, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have recently issued the following travel warnings, travel alerts, country specific information sheets, and disease outbreak-related information:
On August 13, 2010, the Census Bureau issued an AES broadcast announcing that the power has been restored to the primary datacenter for the AESDirect program and AESDirect is back on-line. All AESDirect program transactions for shipments that moved under the AES Downtime Policy must now be filed along with any new AES transactions. AES broadcast #201043 available by emailing documents@brokerpower.com.
The Department of Transportation has issued a final rule, effective October 1, 2010, to amend certain provisions of its drug testing procedures dealing with laboratory testing of urine specimens. Some of the changes will also affect the training of and procedures used by Medical Review Officers. According to DOT, the changes are intended to create consistency with many, but not all, of the new requirements established by the Department of Health and Human Services.
The Census Bureau has issued an AES broadcast announcing that due to extremely high volume, filers may experience delays using the AESDirect system on August 13, 2010 and for the next couple of days and should expect delays receiving responses from the AES. The AESDirect support staff is working to secure additional temporary bandwidth and server capacity to handle the increase in load due to the outage on August 12, 2010. Filers using EDI, VPN or AESPcLink will see additional delays, as Census adjusts processing to handle the load. All Electronic Export Information received will be submitted to the AES and all responses from the AES will be processed. (Census advises that a Compliance Alert is triggered when the date of filing is after the date of export. This alert is automatically triggered by the AES and cannot be changed. AESDirect filers who receive a Compliance Alert for shipments exported under the Downtime Policy should keep a copy of the AES Downtime Broadcast, issued on 08/12/2010, along with the ITN(s).) AES broadcast #201044 available by emailing documents@brokerpower.com.
On August 12, 2010, the Agriculture Marketing Service issued "World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates" for wheat, coarse grains, rice, oilseeds, sugar, livestock, poultry, dairy, and cotton.
The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau has posted the 2010 version of its Wine Seminar Handout Packet.
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has announced the country-specific in-quota allocations under the tariff rate quotas on imported raw cane sugar, refined and specialty sugar and sugar-containing products for fiscal year 2011 (October 1, 2010 -- September 30, 2011).