FDA has issued its Enforcement Report for Dec. 14, 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.
The Commerce Department’s recent preliminary determination that Southeast Asian solar cells and panels are circumventing antidumping and countervailing duties (see 2212020064) left several questions unanswered, and lawyers for the Solar Energy Industries Association hope the agency will clarify these issues as the case proceeds to its final determinations, they said during a webinar Dec. 13.
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Correction: In its preliminary determinations in anti-circumvention inquiries on solar cells from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam, Commerce declared the 22 companies that did not cooperate with the inquiries are ineligible for certification processes for goods from exempt exporters and goods that don’t meet Chinese content requirements. However, they may submit certifications that their goods are “applicable” entries that qualify for a two-year grace period from any duties imposed under the anti-circumvention inquiries (see 2212020064 and 2212070025). Such certifications are due by Jan. 23 for entries since April 1, 2022, and at time of entry summary for entries on or after Dec. 23.
EPA is proposing a new framework for sector-specific restrictions on the import and manufacture of products that contain or use hydrofluorocarbons. The agency’s proposed rule, released Dec. 12, allows for a public petition process for new restrictions on specific sectors. Importers and manufacturers subject to sector-specific HFC restrictions would be covered by new labeling, reporting and recordkeeping requirements. EPA also is proposing its first set of sector restrictions on products in the refrigeration, air conditioning and heat pump, foam blowing and aerosol sectors.
CBP should develop a single automated system for its detention and seizure process, as well as a portal for rightsholders and importers to allow for communication with CBP when infringement of intellectual property rights is suspected, the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee said in recommendations adopted at its Dec. 7 meeting.
FDA has issued its Enforcement Report for Dec. 7, 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.
Certifications must be completed and signed by Jan. 23 for entries since April 1, 2022, to avoid antidumping and countervailing duties on solar cells and modules from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam recently announced by the Commerce Department in a preliminary anti-circumvention determination (see 2212020064), according to a notice set for publication in the Dec. 8 Federal Register.
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Importers and exporters of solar cells and modules from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam must complete and sign certifications within the next several weeks for any entries after April 1, 2022, to avoid antidumping and countervailing duties imposed in the preliminary determination of an anti-circumvention inquiry released by the Commerce Department on Dec. 2.