CBP will deploy on Sept. 29 a new ACE functionality to enforce the $800 daily aggregated limit for de minimis shipments, it said in a CSMS message. The “enhancement will automate the enforcement of the Section 321 requirements by implementing a validation in ACE to ensure that an appropriate party does not receive Section 321 clearance for more than an aggregated value of $800 in shipments on a given day,” CBP said in its most recent ACE development schedule (see 2407020007). “CBP will publish an information notice with more details soon,” it said.
The Federal Maritime Commission this week released its final rule on unreasonable carrier conduct, the last step in the FMC’s nearly two-year campaign of crafting regulations to address ocean carriers that unfairly refuse vessel or cargo space to shippers.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which tried and failed to coordinate restraints on steel overproduction, reported that the World Trade Organization hasn't been able to discipline support for and from state-owned enterprises, and that free trade agreements are likely the best route to curtail their trade distorting effects.
The Canadian press noted that Canada is working to convince officials that might serve in a future Trump administration to spare Canadian goods from a global 10% tariff, but former U.S. trade representative Robert Lighthizer, who recently traveled to Canada, has said Canada won't necessarily be exempted.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the July 19 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 is setting new countervailing duty cash deposit requirements for imports of melamine from Germany, India, Qatar, and Trinidad and Tobago (C-428-853, C-533-925, C-518-002, C-274-811), after finding countervailable subsidization of producers and exporters in the four countries in the preliminary determinations of its CVD investigations. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements will generally take effect for entries on or after July 22, the date that the preliminary determinations are set to be published in the Federal Register, but Commerce is making the suspension of liquidation and CVD cash deposits retroactive to approximately April 21 for Indian companies.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the following voluntary recalls July 18:
EPA is proposing to change several current pesticide tolerances that the agency "determined were necessary or appropriate during the registration review conducted under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act," or FIFRA. EPA is proposing "several tolerance actions" that it determined "were necessary or appropriate during registration review for the following pesticide active ingredients: terbacil, bromacil, metolachlor and S-metolachlor, etridiazole, triclopyr, deltamethrin, cyfluthrin and isomer beta-cyfluthrin, cyproconazole, fluroxypyr, pyraflufen-ethyl, etoxazole, acequinocyl, pinoxaden, flonicamid and d-phenothrin." The changes could impact tolerance levels allowed for a range of food and agricultural goods, including coffee beans, tomatoes, leafy greens, fish and more. Comments are due by Sept. 20.
On July 18, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, in a long acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention July 18, said Chinese companies are building large automobile factories in Mexico, and that "the United Auto Workers ought to be ashamed for allowing this to happen." He also said their leader "should be fired immediately, and every single autoworker, union and nonunion, should be voting for Donald Trump because we’re going to bring back car manufacturing, and we’re going to bring it back fast."