The Drug Enforcement Administration is proposing changes to its regulations that would require electronic filing of permit applications, import and export declarations, and other required filings and reports for the importation and exportation of controlled substances, listed chemicals, and tableting and encapsulating machines. The agency’s proposed rule (here) would eliminate paper filing of most DEA-required submissions entirely, instead requiring importers and exporters to file via the DEA Office of Diversion Control “secure network application,” DEA said. DEA would then provide information to CBP “to validate importations subject to DEA regulations,” it said.
CBP added two new scenarios to the agency's previously released guidance on vessel diversions due to the recent bankruptcy of Hanjin Shipping (see 1609060045). The updated guidance (here) now includes information on how to proceed when an "entry has been filed, cargo has been released by CBP but terminal operator will not allow it to leave the terminal due to payment issues."
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Sept. 5-11:
USTelecom proposed a business data service market test at the census tract level that the FCC could use to determine where facilities-based competition instead of regulation could constrain BDS pricing. "The test proposes that the FCC step back from dictating prices for BDS services wherever two competitors exert competitive discipline over pricing," said a USTelecom filing posted Monday in docket 16-143. Parties on all sides are continuing to lobby the FCC as Chairman Tom Wheeler attempts to push through an overhaul this year (see 1609070033).
USTelecom proposed a business data service market test at the census tract level that the FCC could use to determine where facilities-based competition instead of regulation could constrain BDS pricing. "The test proposes that the FCC step back from dictating prices for BDS services wherever two competitors exert competitive discipline over pricing," said a USTelecom filing posted Monday in docket 16-143. Parties on all sides are continuing to lobby the FCC as Chairman Tom Wheeler attempts to push through an overhaul this year (see 1609070033).
CBP is misguided in its proposal to add non-vessel operating common carriers to the definition of importer within the importer security filing (ISF) requirements (see 1607050028), the National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America said in comments to the agency (here). CBP proposed adding importer status to different parties based on whether the shipment involves foreign cargo remaining on board (FROB) or other types of cargo in order to make sure the party with the access to detailed cargo information is responsible for filing an ISF. The NVOCC is "rarely, if ever," the party with best access to the required information, the trade association said.
A World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement Appellate Body upheld much of a previous WTO dispute settlement panel’s finding that the certain aspects of the Commerce Department's final antidumping and countervailing duty determinations on large residential washers from South Korea are inconsistent with the WTO agreements, according to a WTO report (here). The U.S. on April 19 filed a notice of appeal in the WTO dispute with South Korea regarding AD and CV measures on large residential clothes washers from the country, WTO said (see 1604220008), after the WTO in March ruled against several aspects of how the U.S. calculated AD/CV duties on the washers (see 1603150025).
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Aug. 29 - Sept. 4:
The National Marine Fisheries Service is working on screening and targeting criteria to determine what entries subject to new International Fisheries Trade Permit (IFTP) and ACE filing requirements it will select for manual review, said Christopher Rogers, assistant director of the international fisheries division of the NMFS Office of International Affairs and Seafood Inspection, during a Sept. 1 webinar. Given the large number of entries the agency will have to review once ACE filing becomes mandatory for NMFS data on Sept. 20, the agency will rely on the criteria to decide whether to review entries before or after the shipment is released, he said.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Aug. 22-28: