The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the following voluntary recalls Sept. 12:
The Environmental Protection Agency is launching a proposed rulemaking that will enable the agency to create a framework assessing the renewal or eligibility of applications that seek application-specific allowances amid EPA's efforts to phase down hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), it said in a Federal Register notice set for publication Sept. 16.
On Sept. 12, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) issued a direct final rule that amends the Cotton Board Rules and Regulations by decreasing the value assigned to imported cotton for the purposes of calculating supplemental assessments collected for use by the Cotton Research and Promotion Program.
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California on Sept. 13 dismissed a suit from three U.S.-based honey producers related to the alleged import of "fake" honey. Judge Daniel Calabretta held that the honey producers, led by Henry's Bullfrog Bees, failed to include sufficiently specific factual allegations to support their claims that the defendants -- honey importers and distributors -- engaged in fraud (Henry's Bullfrog Bees v. Sunland Trading, E.D. Cal. # 2:21-00582).
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 Sept. 12, 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 has a "reasonable suspicion" that Fort Lauderdale-based JBS Trading is evading antidumping duties on xanthan gum from China ( A-570-985), it said as it annnounced that the company is under an Enforce and Protect Act investigation. The agency alleges that when JBS Trading imported China-origin xanthan gum into the U.S., it undervalued them at the time of entry, thereby failing to pay adequate cash deposits associated with the AD order, according to a Sept. 13 release.
The administration rebranded two pending rulemaking processes and revived one that was abandoned in 2021 to address the compliance risks of de minimis shipments as well as shrink the volume of direct-to-consumer imports.
The Biden administration will issue a notice of proposed rulemaking to forbid all goods subject to major trade actions, including Section 301 tariffs, from de minimis entry, the White House announced. It will also issue a notice of proposed rulemaking to require information submissions for de minimis packages, including the 10-digit HTS code and the person receiving the goods.