The Consumer Product Safety Commission on Jan. 22 announced the appointment of Austin Schlick as its executive director. Jessica Rich will take over as general counsel, Schlick’s former role, CPSC said.
Elizabeth Cannon, former global trade counsel with Microsoft, has joined the Bureau of Industry and Security as the executive director of the agency’s Office of Information and Communications Technology and Services, a BIS spokesperson said. That office is responsible for implementing certain prohibitions on information and communications technology and services transactions, restrictions on foreign access to certain U.S. sensitive data, and more. Cannon’s first day was Jan. 22.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Jan. 22 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 Jan. 22 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):
The Commerce Department is beginning new antidumping duty investigations on glass wine bottles from Chile, China and Mexico, as well as a new countervailing duty investigation on glass wine bottles from China, it said in a fact sheet Jan. 19. The underlying petition was filed in December (see 2401030043). The International Trade Commission is scheduled to make its preliminary injury determinations by Feb. 12. These AD/CVD investigations will continue only if the ITC finds injury. International Trade Today will provide more details upon publication of the initiation notices in the Federal Register.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission released a final rule Jan. 22 amending its safety standard for all-terrain vehicles to incorporate the latest revisions to the Specialty Vehicle Institute of America industry standard, it said. The changes are effective Jan. 1, 2025.
The National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America said the FDA needs to address a few remaining issues in its recently issued guidance document on upcoming cosmetics registration and product listing requirements.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service will allow imports of fresh bell peppers to resume, after prohibiting them in December 2022 based on the detections of the Mediterranean fruit fly, APHIS said in an amended federal order issued Jan. 19. “Effective immediately,” bell peppers (Capsicum annuum) may be imported from Spain “under the import requirements currently listed in the Agricultural Commodity Import Requirements (ACIR) database” as well as “corrective actions” listed in the amended federal order, including reinforcing and strengthening Spanish greenhouses and inspections following severe weather. APHIS said tears in the plastic of Spanish greenhouses allowed the pests to contaminate the shipments and caused the detections that led to the ban.
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices on Jan. 22:
The National Marine Fisheries Service made a new comparability finding that two New Zealand fisheries have comparable marine mammal bycatch protections to U.S. fisheries, and may be listed on the agency’s List of Foreign Fisheries eligible for import into the U.S., NMFS said in a notice released Jan. 22.