FDA is proposing new tobacco product manufacturing practice requirements for manufacturers of finished and bulk tobacco products, it said in a notice scheduled for publication in the March 10 Federal Register. The proposed regulations, which would include requirements for manufacture, pre-production design validation, packing and storage, would also apply to foreign manufacturers and importers finished and bulk tobacco products, FDA said.
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Brian Feito is Managing Editor of International Trade Today, Export Compliance Daily and Trade Law Daily. A licensed customs broker who spent time at the Department of Commerce calculating antidumping and countervailing duties, Brian covers a wide range of subjects including customs and trade-facing product regulation, the courts, antidumping and countervailing duties and Mexico and the European Union. Brian is a graduate of the University of Florida and George Mason University. He joined the staff of Warren Communications News in 2012.
CBP will require new data on entry summaries for aluminum products beginning on April 10, the agency said in a CSMS message issued March 9. The data will aid its enforcement of increased Section 232 tariffs on Russian aluminum that include articles from third countries that use any Russian aluminum (see 2302240006).
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FDA has issued its Enforcement Report for March 1, listing the status of recalls and field corrections for food, cosmetics, tobacco products, drugs, biologics and devices. The report covers both domestic and foreign firms.
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The Court of International Trade’s recent tariff classification decision on Cyber Power’s uninterruptible power supplies “may be a meaningful reset of the law of substantial transformation,” moving the analysis back to a comparison between parts and finished components after a period of focus on essence or critical components, customs lawyer Larry Friedman said in a Feb. 27 blog post.
The Court of International Trade on Feb. 27 ruled in favor of an importer on the Philippine origin of one of its models of power supplies and surge protectors, but found the importer didn’t prove a substantial transformation occurred for five others and upheld CBP’s finding of Chinese origin for those models.
CBP published a set of new guidance documents for importers on the agency’s enforcement of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act on Feb. 23, including new answers to frequently asked questions on its website, best practices for submitting documentation to prove detained goods aren’t subject to UFLPA, and guidance on how executive summaries and tables of contents should be put together for that documentation.
FDA has issued its Enforcement Report for Feb. 22, listing the status of recalls and field corrections for food, cosmetics, tobacco products, drugs, biologics and devices. The report covers both domestic and foreign firms.
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