The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on frozen fish fillets from Vietnam (A-552-801). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise entered August 2021 through July 2022.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission released a direct final rule March 13 amending its safety standard for automatic residential garage door openers to incorporate the latest revisions to the entrapment protection provisions in the UL voluntary industry standard UL 325, it said. The changes are effective May 13, unless CPSC receives a “significant adverse” comment by April 15.
On March 12, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The Food Safety and Inspection Service will soon issue its new regulations on voluntary “Product of USA” or “Made in USA” labeling for meat, poultry and egg products, USDA said in a March 11 news release. Under the final rule, establishments using U.S.-origin claims will need to comply with the new requirements by Jan. 1, 2026.
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices on March 13:
House Committee on Ways and Means Chairman Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., and the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, Mike Crapo of Idaho, said the administration shouldn't sign the current version of the international tax agreement, which would allow countries to collect taxes on firms unrelated to their physical presence in their countries. This is part of a two-part process in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development aimed at ending digital services taxes, which target U.S. tech giants.
Twenty-two Republican senators -- including the top Republicans on the Senate Finance and Agriculture committees and one of the front-runners to replace Minority Leader Mitch McConnell -- argue that the "current sharp decline in U.S. agricultural exports is directly attributable to and exacerbated by an unambitious U.S. trade strategy that is failing to meaningfully expand market access or reduce tariff and non-tariff barriers to trade."
Arthur "Jack" Schubarth, a Montana rancher, pleaded guilty March 12 to conspiring to violate the Lacey Act and to violating the Lacey Act by illegally importing wildlife from Kyrgyzstan, DOJ announced. Schubarth worked for nearly a decade as part of a scheme to "create giant sheep hybrids" in the U.S. with the goal of selling them to "captive hunting facilities," DOJ said. He faces a maximum of five years in prison for each count and a fine of up to $250,000.
Generic drugmaker KVK Research pleaded guilty last week to charges that it "introduced adulterated drugs into interstate commerce" in violation of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, agreeing to pay $1.5 million in fines and forfeiture, DOJ announced.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters: