The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued its final results of the changed circumstances antidumping (AD) duty review of canned pineapple fruit from Thailand, concluding that Tipco Foods (Thailand) Public Co., Ltd. (Tipco Foods) is the successor-in-interest to The Thai Pineapple Public Co., Ltd. (TIPCO).

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) has published a list of updated quantity-based trigger levels and applicable periods, effective June 22, 2004, for agricultural products which may be subject to additional import duties under the safeguard provisions of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Agriculture.

On June 17, 2004, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 4520, the American Jobs Creation Act which would, among other things, repeal the Foreign Sales Corporation/Extraterritorial Income Act (FSC/ETI) tax regime, extend the Merchandise Processing Fee (MPF) and other user fees, etc.

The Fish and Wildlife Service's (FWS') Office of Law Enforcement has issued a public bulletin stating that effective immediately, all applications for re-export certificates for certain amphibian and reptile CITES¹ species or genera must be submitted to Division of Management Authority (DMA) along with the appropriate application fee.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced that the Homeland Security Information Network-Critical Infrastructure (HSIN-CI) Pilot Program has been expanded to include critical infrastructure owners and operators and the private sector in Dallas, Seattle, Indianapolis and Atlanta. According to DHS, HSIN-CI is an unclassified network for two-way information sharing which provides DHS' Homeland Security Operations Center with continuous access to a broad spectrum of industries, agencies and critical infrastructure across both the public and private sectors. (DHS press releases, dated 06/23/04, available at http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/archdisplay?theme=43,44,45,47&monthyear=062004)

The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued a notice stating that, at the request of the petitioner, Mercury Marine, a division of Brunswick Corporation, it is further postponing the preliminary antidumping (AD) duty determination on outboard engines from Japan until no later than August 5, 2004 (from July 16, 2004).