FDA has issued its Enforcement Report for Feb. 15, 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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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 is opening up its Section 321 data pilot beyond the initial nine participants, and extending the pilot an additional two years, until August 2025, the agency said in a notice released Feb. 15. CBP also will allow submission of new, optional data elements as part of the pilot.
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CBP is delaying its deployment in ACE of ocean house bill release until June, while it addresses some “fine tune issues” that have arisen with disposition codes, said Brad Slutsky, CBP director-cargo and security controls, in remarks at a National Association of Foreign-Trade Zones Legislative Summit Feb. 14. “It is very close to deployment,” he said.
FDA has issued its Enforcement Report for Feb. 8, 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.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission is proposing a new safety standard for button cell and coin batteries, including consumer products that are meant to contain them. Under the new standard, the button cell and coin batteries, as well as consumer products that are sold with them and those that are not but are designed to use them, must comply with new labeling and performance requirements. Comments on the proposed rule are due March 13.
CBP is now detaining polyvinyl chloride products for forced labor under the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, customs lawyer Ted Murphy said in a client alert Feb. 7. That’s in addition to a newfound focus on aluminum (see 2301120046), as well as the high priority sectors listed in the UFLPA statute: cotton, tomatoes and polysilicon, Murphy said.
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CBP will give customs brokers nearly two more months to comply with a new requirement to submit lists of all current employees to CBP via the ACE Portal, the agency said in a CSMS message. Brokers will now have until April 14 to comply with the requirement from the recent customs broker modernization final rule (see 2210170071). The deadline had previously been Feb. 17 (see 2212190056).
CBP is lifting its forced labor finding on Malaysian palm oil producer Sime Darby Plantation Berhad, after finding that, ”based upon additional information" Sime Darby provided to CBP that "establishes by satisfactory evidence that the subject palm oil and derivative products are no longer mined, produced, or manufactured in any part with forced labor,” the agency said in a notice released Feb. 2.