The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for March 3:
The South Carolina State Ports Authority has submitted an application to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board to reorganize FTZ 21 in Charleston, South Carolina under the Alternative Site Framework, said the FTZ Board in a Federal Register notice (here). Under the reorganization, the service area would cover Charleston, Berkeley, Dorchester, Orangeburg, Williamsburg, Georgetown, Colleton, Jasper, Hampton and Beaufort Counties, as well as parts of Horry, Florence, and Marion Counties. The Alternative Site Framework streamlines processes for designation of new FTZ subzones and usage driven sites within the service area by allowing companies to request zone status through the relatively simple "minor boundary modification" process. Comments on the application are due by May 4.
The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for March 2:
The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for Feb. 26:
The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for Feb. 25:
The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for Feb. 24:
The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for Feb. 23:
The Commerce Department banned Ernesto Salgado-Guzman from involvement in exports for 10 years from the date of his 2014 arms smuggling conviction, the agency’s Bureau of Industry and Security said (here). Salgado-Guzman exported certain rifles to Mexico in violation of the Arms Export Control Act, a California U.S. District Court ruled. BIS denied export privileges for Salgado-Guzman until May 5, 2024. Commerce put Salgado-Guzman on the Denied Persons List in recent days (see 1502180029). Salgado-Guzman is currently incarcerated in a Texas prison.
The Commerce Department added the following 11 entries to the Entity List (here):
The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security will now consider approval for U.S. telecommunications exports to Sudan on a case-by-case basis, rather than keeping in place the agency’s previous policy of denial for such exports (here). BIS will also expand the Consumer Communications Devices license exception for U.S. telecommunications exports to the Sudanese private sector, BIS said in a final rule. The CCD license exception, authorized in 2009 but restricted to exports to Cuba (here), will cover shipments to Sudan beginning Feb. 18. Most of the items covered under the CCD don’t require licenses for export to most countries, said BIS in the final rule. The Office of Foreign Assets Control issued a concurrent final rule amending the Sudanese Sanctions Regulations (here).