USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service is seeking comments on the updates it has made on documentation guidelines related to animal-raising or environmental-related claims on meat or poultry product raising. FSIS says the updated guideline "includes changes made in response to updated scientific information, FSIS sampling data, askFSIS questions, public comments, petitions, and other meetings with Agency stakeholders." The agency is accepting comments through Nov. 12.
U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai told podcast hosts at Bloomberg News that the U.S. and other countries that lost manufacturing jobs as China ramped up its exports from 2000 to 2019 are saying: "We will not tolerate, we cannot tolerate a China Shock 2.0."
House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., led a bipartisan trip to Argentina, Paraguay and Chile, where they heard from Argentina and Paraguay how crucial the Generalized System of Preferences benefits program is to the trading relationship.
Former President Donald Trump, at a campaign rally over the weekend in Wisconsin, said he would impose a 100% tariff on goods from countries that "leave the dollar."
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. 6, 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.
The Court of International Trade on Sept. 9 rejected importer Katana Racing's renewed motion to dismiss the govenrment's action against it seeking over $5.7 million in unpaid duties on passenger vehicle and light truck tires from China, after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed the trade court's previous dismissal of the case. In her first opinion since being confirmed to the court, Judge Lisa Wang said the U.S. didn't fail to properly identify the "person" liable for the violation, exhaust administrative remedies or bring the case on time (U.S. v. Katana Racing, CIT # 19-00125).
The National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center has named Ivan Arvelo its new director, it said in a news release. Arvelo previously served as special agent in charge for Homeland Security Investigations New York and special agent in charge for HSI San Juan.
Sheep ranchers in the U.S. are complaining that U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai hasn't asked the International Trade Commission to open a safeguard investigation for mutton and lamb imports, more than a year after they first asked for the action.
A survey of large American-headquartered multinationals -- 40% of which capture more than $1 billion in revenue from Chinese operations -- found as one of their top concerns the rising competitiveness of Chinese companies, whether from subsidization or business advances, or a combination of those factors.