On Dec. 5, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The FDA is informing the Office of Management and Budget that it intends to continue to collect information related to the agency's efforts to maintain traceability records for certain foods. The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act requires the FDA to establish additional recordkeeping requirements for facilities that manufacture, process, pack or hold foods that the agency designates as high-risk to facilitate the rapid and effective traceability of such foods. The foods are on the Food Traceability List on the FDA's website.
CBP improperly denied importer Software Brokers of America, doing business as Intcomex, the temporary exclusion from International Emergency Economic Powers Act tariffs on China for in-transit merchandise, the importer argued in a Dec. 5 complaint at the Court of International Trade (Software Brokers of America d/b/a Intcomex v. United States, CIT # 25-00381).
CBP on Dec. 4 created Harmonized System Update 2542 containing 40 Automated Broker Interface records and 13 Harmonized Tariff Schedule records. HSU 2542 contains the updates pursuant to the United States-Korea Strategic Trade and Investment Deal; the updates pursuant to the Section 301 product exclusion extensions notice; and an HTS flagging change in support of the partner government agency message set: the FDA tariff flag FD2 was changed to FD1 for HTS 2941.10.2000 Penicillin G salts.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Dec. 5, 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.
Former trade officials said the Trump administration's tariff policy in Asia is being tested by China’s concern over recently completed U.S. tariff arrangements with Malaysia and Cambodia, which could complicate the administration’s push to wrap up deals with Vietnam and Indonesia.
Importers should brace for processing delays at the U.S.-Mexico border as a key component to recent reforms to Mexico's customs law go into effect (see 2511260062), freight forwarder and customs broker Livingston warns in a Dec. 5 update.
The development of artificial intelligence tools specifically aimed at facilitating trade and improving import and export compliance could potentially halve the global workforce dealing with these matters, said the head of WiseTech Global during the company's Global Investor Day on Dec. 3.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Dec. 4 and Dec. 5 Federal Register on the following antidumping and countervailing duty injury, Section 337 patent or other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):
The International Trade Commission seeks comments by Dec. 15 on a Section 337 complaint alleging that imports of construction vehicles infringe patents held by Superior Communications Inc., it said in a notice published Dec. 5 in the Federal Register. According to the complaint, Superior is seeking a limited exclusion order and cease and desist orders against Belkin Inc., to bar from entry "certain screen protectors, screen protector systems, and components thereof" that violate its patents. Superior said that its products are "screen protectors used with application trays."