The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission began five-year sunset reviews of the antidumping duty orders on strontium chromate from Austria (A-433-813) and France (A-427-830), Commerce said in a notice released Sept. 30.
The Commerce Department has released its final determinations in the antidumping duty investigations on aluminum lithographic printing plates from China (A-570-156) and Japan (A-588-881). Cash deposit rates set in this final determination took effect Sept. 27.
On Sept. 27, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is revising some web links related to phytosanitary treatment and quarantine import regulations so that the regulations reflect APHIS' relocation of import and treatment requirements for agricultural commodities to the Agricultural Commodity Import Requirements (ACIR) online database. The revision is effective Oct. 1, APHIS said in a notice.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Sept. 27, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at CBP's ADCVD Search page.
The CBP issued a cargo systems message late Sept. 30 providing guidance for parties that are awaiting vessels that have cargo intended for unlading at East Coast and Gulf Coast ports that could be impacted by the International Longshoremen's Association strike on Oct. 1.
U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai, in responses to Senate Finance Committee members, talked about changes needed in USMCA, declined to endorse a permanent e-commerce tariff moratorium and called for more money for CBP, to address Section 301 tariff circumvention.
Meghan Pearce, former federal policy director at tech advocacy group TechNet, has joined Steptoe as a senior international trade legislative assistant in the government affairs and public policy practice, Pearce announced on LinkedIn. Pearce started at TechNet in 2020, working up to policy director. Earlier, she worked as a legislative correspondent for Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa.
As the U.S. supply chain readies itself for a potential labor strike at East Coast and Gulf Coast ports on Oct. 1, CBP and transportation and logistics providers are helping the trade community develop their Plan Bs.