On Aug. 16, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
USDA is revising the appendices to its Dairy Tariff-Rate Quota Import Licensing Regulation for the 2024 tariff-rate quota year, it said in a notice. The agency is transferring the amounts for certain dairy articles from the historical license category (Appendix 1) to the lottery (nonhistorical) license category (Appendix 2) pursuant to the Dairy Tariff-Rate Quota Import Licensing regulations for the 2024 quota year.
The USDA Foreign Agricultural Service will charge $325 for the 2025 tariff-rate quota year for each license issued to a person or firm by the USDA authorizing the importation of certain dairy articles that are subject to TRQs set forth in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule, it said in a notice. The new fee is $50 lower than the fee charged for 2024 TRQ year licenses (see 2308300040).
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who is stepping down from leadership but remaining in the Senate, defended free trade in a speech in his home state last week.
The Coalition for a Prosperous America, which advocates for protecting American manufacturing, said the new Senate Finance Committee bill to restrict de minimis moves "things in the right direction," even more than the bill that passed the House Ways and Means Committee in the spring.
Former President Donald Trump said last week that he might put not just a blanket 10% tariff on imports from countries other than China, but 20% tariffs, at least on "foreign countries that have been ripping us off for years" (see 2408140058).
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 Aug. 16, 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.
CBP expects the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) to add more members to the committee's roster soon, CBP told International Trade Today.
Federal Maritime Commissioner Carl Bentzel hopes to issue a final report later this year that will expand on ways carriers, ports, railroads and others can better share supply chain data and real-time shipping information, he said this week. Bentzel said he believes the government eventually should turn some of the report’s recommendations into new mandates, including one that would require carriers to provide shippers with live, in-transit updates on their cargo.