On Sept. 18, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The Agricultural Marketing Service is proposing to amend its requirements for imported Beta avocados to move up by two weeks the earliest date that Beta avocados may be marketed, it said in a notice released Sept. 19. The change also applies to avocados grown in South Florida. AMS said a study it conducted found Beta avocados are maturing earlier due to “climate conditions and cultural practices.” The change doesn’t apply to Hass, Fuerte, Zutano and Edranol varieties of avocados, which are currently exempt from the maturity requirements for avocados but are still subject to AMS grade regulations, unchanged by this proposed rule. Comments are due Nov. 19.
Rubio introduced a bill that would change the country of origin for goods so that a company owned by or based in China or any other "foreign adversary" would assign the adversary country of origin to those companies' goods, no matter where the goods were manufactured. The bill is silent on whether that would also apply to U.S.-manufactured goods by Chinese companies, such as Volvo cars.
More than 25 agriculture groups asked the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance committees' leaders this week to renew the Generalized System of Preferences benefits program.
A bill that would only allow goods made in Palestinian-administered parts of the West Bank to be labeled as originating in the West Bank, and would require that goods made in Israeli settlements to be labeled as Israeli passed the House of Representatives 231-189 late Sept. 18.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Sept. 18, 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.
In the Sept. 11 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 58, No. 36), CBP published a proposal to revoke ruling letters concerning polyurethane-coated weft knit fabric materials from China.
CBP has released its Sept. 18 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 58, No. 37), which includes the following ruling actions:
A Department of Treasury official acknowledged Sept. 18 that “personnel changes in the Treasury Security Department” are creating a backlog in the process of appointing additional members to the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee.
Former House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp, who was a Republican representative from Michigan, told a think tank audience that the lame duck session of the current Congress is likely to be consumed with government funding negotiations, and that leadership is unlikely to put a vote on the Generalized System of Preferences benefits program on the calendar, no matter its logic, unless members of both legislative bodies actively lobby the leaders of his former committee and the Senate Finance Committee.