On July 2, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The FDA is banning the use of brominated vegetable oil in food, it said in a final rule. The agency is revoking the authorization for the use of BVO as an ingredient to stabilize flavoring oils in fruit-flavored beverages, which was the only use allowed. “Few beverages in the U.S. contain BVO,” the FDA said in an industry update. The final rule takes effect Aug. 2, but compliance with the ban isn’t required until one year later.
The USDA Foreign Agricultural Service published a list of updated quantity trigger levels and applicable periods for products that may be subject to additional import duties under the safeguard provisions of the World Trade Organization Agreement on Agriculture.
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices on July 3:
The U.K. must reassess whether it should investigate cotton imports from China suspected of being made with forced labor after an appellate court ruled last month that the country’s National Crime Agency wrongly decided against opening the probe.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website July 2, 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:
CBP has released its July 3 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 58, No. 26). It contains two notices of final determinations, one on UPanelS LED display panels and another on thermal printers. There also is a proposed modification of four ruling letters relating to the tariff classification of certain composite goods with the essential character of permanent magnets.
CBP rejected children’s product manufacturer Summer Infant’s claims that its Learn-to-Sit booster seats should be classified as traditional booster seats. As a result, the Learn-to-Sit booster seats are subject to Section 301 duties, according to a recent ruling released by CBP June 14.
The Federal Maritime Commission on July 1 added Hyundai Merchant Marine to its Controlled Carrier List, a list of carriers that are subject to increased FMC regulations because they are directly or indirectly owned by foreign governments. The FMC said Hyundai Merchant Marine, a container transportation company, is controlled by the South Korean government but will be exempt from certain controlled carrier regulations because of a treaty the U.S. and Korea signed in 1957.