The Commerce Department issued its quarterly update to its annual list of foreign government subsidies on articles of cheese subject to an in-quota rate of duty that were imported during the period Jan. 1 through March 31, 2019. The agency again found that only Canada is providing subsidies, in the form of export assistance.
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notice for July 30:
The National Marine Fisheries Service will not move forward with the trusted trader program for seafood importers that was proposed in 2018 (see 1801160041), a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration spokeswoman said by email. "The Commerce Trusted Trader Program final rule has been withdrawn from interagency review" and "NOAA Fisheries will not finalize the program in its proposed form," she said. "NOAA Fisheries is considering alternative measures to alleviate burdens associated with compliance with the Seafood Import Monitoring Program and will issue additional guidance on this matter in the coming weeks." Trade groups raised several concerns in response to the proposals in 2018 (see 1803230034).
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notice for July 26:
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notice for July 25
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notice for July 22:
The Commerce Department is removing now-obsolete regulations "on licenses for the allocation of tariff rate quotas for the import of certain worsted wool fabrics," it said in a final rule. The International Trade Administration's TRQ authority for the licenses has expired, said Commerce. The change is effective July 16.
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for July 15:
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for July 12:
The National Marine Fisheries Service rejected a request to protect the Maui dolphin through a ban of imports of fish and fish products from New Zealand, the agency said in a notice. The NMFS in February requested public comments on the petition from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, which sought to initiate an emergency rulemaking process under the Marine Mammal Protection Act (see 1902220018). The agency received more than 88,670 comments, but only a small number were substantive, the NMFS said.