RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. -- The downturn in cargo volumes may be muting any market impact of U.S. efforts to collect fees on Chinese-built and -operated ocean vessels, a panelist recently said at the Western Cargo Conference.
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. -- As increased trade enforcement, the federal government shutdown and efforts to hunt down counterfeit goods and illegal drugs dominate today’s headlines, so are these circumstances impacting the ports on the West Coast, according to panelists at last week’s Western Cargo Conference.
The Drug Enforcement Administration is temporarily adding seven synthetic benzimidazole-opioid substances -- ethyleneoxynitazene, methylenedioxynitazene, 5-methyl etodesnitazene, N -desethyl etonitazene, N -desethyl protonitazene, N,N -dimethylamino etonitazene, and N -pyrrolidino isotonitazene etonitazene -- to Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, it said in a notice. The listing takes effect Oct. 15, and will be in effect for up to three years.
On Oct. 14, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said during a Q&A Oct. 15 that U.S. negotiators "are about to finish up with Korea."
Sen. John Kennedy's bill to restore African Growth and Opportunity Act trade preferences retains the third-country fabric provision and extends the program until Sept. 30, 2027.
White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett told an Axios interviewer that the administration was taken aback by China's announcement of extraterritorial export controls on products made with rare earths processed in China.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Oct. 6-12:
Test participants involved in CBP's National Customs Automation Program test on periodic monthly statements must transmit the payment of supplemental duty bills from an underpayment of estimated duties, taxes and fees via the Automated Clearinghouse (ACH), according to a Federal Register notice.
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