The Commerce Department, responding to requests for more time for comments, has reopened the file on a request for public comments on the condition of the public health industrial base and recommendations to ensure the industrial base provides essential medicines, medical countermeasures and critical inputs here in the U.S. Comments will be accepted until Jan. 15, 2021, it said in a notice published Dec. 30. Stakeholders' input is sought on the need to make more pharmaceutical ingredients, drugs or protective gear in the U.S., in preparation for a report on how to strengthen the public health industrial base (see 2012020029).
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices Dec. 17:
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices Dec. 16:
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The Commerce Department ended a Section 232 investigation launched in May on mobile cranes, it said in a Dec. 4 news release. The Manitowoc Company, which had originally requested the investigation, withdrew its application in September, “citing a changing economic environment due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic,” the news release said. “After consideration of Manitowoc’s request for withdrawal, the Secretary determined that it was appropriate to terminate the investigation,” Commerce said.
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices Dec. 4:
The Commerce Department, seeking to submit a report by Feb. 2 on initiatives to strengthen the public health industrial base, is soliciting comments from stakeholders on the need to make more drugs, active pharmaceutical ingredients or protective gear in the U.S. Comments can be submitted through Dec. 23. Commerce wants to know what parts of the industrial base are most vulnerable during a pandemic, what lessons were learned responding to COVID-19, and how capacity did or did not ramp up this year. It encourages commenters to explain whether they are consumers, manufacturers, distributors, or a research and development operation.
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices Dec. 2: