The International Trade Administration is publishing notices in the April 10, 2012, Federal Register on the following AD/CV proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CV duty rates, the scope, affected firms, or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):
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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 International Trade Commission is publishing notices in the April 10, 2012, Federal Register on the following AD/CV injury, Section 337 patent, and other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will appear in another ITT article):
The Foreign Trade Zones Board is issuing the following notices for April 10, 2012:
The Foreign Agriculture Service reports that private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 165,000 metric tons of soybeans to China during the 2012/2013 marketing year. The marketing year for soybeans began September 1.
From March 21 to March 23, 2012, the Foreign Agriculture Service issued the following GAIN reports:
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Web site as of April 10, 2012, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching on the listed CBP message number at http://addcvd.cbp.gov.
The Food and Drug Administration issued its weekly Enforcement Report for April 4, 2012 that lists the status of recalls and field corrections for food, drugs, biologics, and devices. The report covers both domestic and foreign firms.
The International Trade Administration issued an affirmative preliminary determination that glycine processed by two Indian companies, Salvi Chemical Industries Limited and AICO Laboratories India Ltd., and exported to the U.S. is circumventing the antidumping duty order on glycine from China (A-570-836). The ITA also said the Indian company Paras Intermediates Pvt. Ltd. is not circumventing the order because it is producing glycine from raw materials of Indian origin and exporting such merchandise to the U.S. As a result of the comments made by the parties in the circumvention inquiry with respect to substantial transformation and country of origin, and as a result of its affirmative circumvention findings in light of prior scope determinations, the ITA is initiating a scope inquiry of Chinese-origin glycine processed into a purer grade glycine in India.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is seeking additional comments by May 10, 2012 on an existing information collection on the transfer of cargo to a container station. CBP is proposing to extend this information collection with no change to the burden hours or information collected.
During the week of April 2 through April 8, 2012, the Food and Drug Administration modified the following existing Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of: