On May 17, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices on May 20:
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website May 17, 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 issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
The automotive industry's inadequate due diligence controls for Uyghur forced labor make it complicit in the abuse, the Senate Finance Committee charged in a report that criticizes three customers of a firm on the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act entity list -- Volkswagen, BMW and Jaguar Land Rover.
A Senate Finance Committee investigation into forced labor in imported autos' supply chains said that BMW and Jaguar Land Rover, after being notified by Lear Corporation that LAN transformers were made by a company on the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List, continued to export cars with those parts, or the parts themselves, into the U.S.
American, German and British environmental and trade politics experts agreed at an American-German Institute event on "Squaring the Transatlantic Circle" on climate policy that although it seems like Western Europe and the U.S. should be united on goals and interests, their economic competition and even pride stand in the way.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the May 17 Federal Register on the following AD/CVD injury, Section 337 patent or other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register May 17 on the following AD/CV duty proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CV duty rates, scope, affected firms or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):
Drawing pencils, colored pencils and #2 pencils exported from the Philippines by School Specialty are subject to an antidumping duty order on cased pencils from China, the Commerce Department said in a May 7 scope ruling.