The Agricultural Marketing Service renewed the status of 47 substances on its National List of Allowed and Prohibited Substances for use in organic crop production and foods labeled as organic, it said in a notice released Aug. 7. As a result, these substances will retain their current status -- either allowed or prohibited in organic production, depending on the substance – until 2030, AMS said. See the notice for the full list.

The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices on Aug. 7:

A bill recently introduced by Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., would renew the Generalized System of Preferences benefitsprogram through the end of 2029, while adding new eligibility criteria related to the environment, women’s and human rights, rule of law and digital trade barriers, according to a final text of the bill provided by her office. The bill, S-4915, is the same as a proposal that was passed by the Senate in 2021 as an amendment to the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act of 2021 but never made it into law (see 2207190059).

A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Aug. 6, 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 issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:

Chinese seller Jinxiang Lunong Agricultural Trading's sale of dehydrated garlic to U.S. importer Green Food Ingredients isn't “bona fide” first sale that can be used to appraise a transaction, CBP ruled on May 29. This is partly because of how the transaction was structured and invoiced, the agency said.

The Commerce Department on Aug. 5 published its quarterly list of (i) completed antidumping and countervailing duty scope rulings and (ii) anti-circumvention determinations. The following list covers completed scope rulings for the period Jan. 1, 2024, through March 31, 2024:

The Commerce Department soon will suspend liquidation and set antidumping duty cash deposit requirements for imports of glass wine bottles from Chile, China and Mexico, it said in a fact sheet Aug. 5. The agency's preliminary determinations set AD rates ranging from 6.64% to 173.91% for Chilean companies, 11.14% to 207.52% for Chinese companies and 14.96% to 96.95% for Mexican companies. Suspension of liquidation is already in effect for China for countervailing duty purposes (see 2405310078). AD suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements for these three countries will take effect for entries on or after the date of publication of the preliminary determinations in the Federal Register, which should occur in the coming days.

The Commerce Department will suspend liquidation and require antidumping and countervailing duties on aluminum wire and cable finished in South Korea and Vietnam using inputs from China, after preliminarily finding the imports are circumventing AD/CVD orders on aluminum wire and cable from China (A-570-095/C-570-096).

On Aug. 5, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of: