FDA has issued its Enforcement Report for Dec. 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.
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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.
FDA is finalizing its Laboratory Accreditation for Analyses of Foods (LAAF) framework for accreditation of laboratories for testing of food in certain circumstances, including tests to demonstrate admissibility of food detained by FDA at the border and tests used as evidence by importers seeking removal from import alert, it said in a final rule released Dec. 2.
FDA has issued its Enforcement Report for Dec. 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.
The World Customs Organization recently announced that the final 2022 edition of the Harmonized System tariff nomenclature is now available on its website. The new edition, which replaces the 2017 version, will take effect Jan. 1, though WCO HS Convention members must implement the changes in their own tariff schedules.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is proposing to amend its regulations on imports of equines, it said. Changes would include increasing the number of days horses exported from regions free from contagious equine metritis (CEM) are allowed to spend in CEM-affected regions before re-entering the U.S. without testing from 60 to 90 days, and new requirements for an import permit for horses transiting through CEM-affected regions. Comments are due Jan. 28.
The International Trade Commission will recommend an extension to Section 201 safeguard tariffs on solar cells that began in 2018, it said Nov. 24. The commission found the safeguard “continues to be necessary to prevent or remedy serious injury to the U.S. industry, and that there is evidence that the domestic industry is making a positive adjustment to import competition.” The ITC said it will submit a report by Dec. 8 to President Joe Biden, who will make a final decision on whether to extend the safeguard duties. Unless extended, the safeguard will expire Feb. 6, 2022.
FDA is adding importers to its import alert for those not in compliance with the Foreign Supplier Verification Program at an ever-increasing rate, with more than half of importers subject to import refusal under the alert added within the last three months.
FDA has issued its Enforcement Report for Nov. 24, 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.
A protest supplement filed by an importer may not be considered by CBP as a supplement but should be accepted as a new protest, CBP said in a recent ruling. Though the supplement was too late because it came after the relevant protest was denied and addressed an issue not included under the original protest, the supplement otherwise met all requirements for protests filed by CBP, the agency said.
FDA has issued its Enforcement Report for Nov. 17, 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.