The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a notice announcing that it is reopening until July 6, 2004 the comment period for a 1995 proposed rule which proposed, among other things, to amend the FDA's existing health claims regulations to provide additional flexibility in the use of these claims on food products.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a notice announcing the availability of a draft Programmatic Environmental Assessment (PEA) regarding potential environmental impacts resulting from its deployment of the Vehicle and Cargo Inspection System (VACIS) at various ports of entry through the U.S. and Puerto Rico.
On May 14, 2004, the General Accounting Office (GAO) submitted to the Homeland Security Subcommittees of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees a report entitled "Information Technology - Early Releases of Customs Trade System Operating, but Pattern of Cost and Schedule Problems Needs to be Addressed."
The Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA) has issued a notice stating that, effective May 17, 2004, the above-listed Romania quotas were adjusted for swing, special shift, carryover, and the recrediting of unused carryforward.
| Eff 05/18/04 FR Pub 05/17/04 The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has issued a final rule, effective May 6, 2004, which revises certain entries on the Commerce Control List (CCL) to conform the description of certain protection and detection equipment to that found in the Wassenaar Arrangement List of Dual Use Goods and Technologies (Dual Use List), to impose national security and anti-terrorism license requirements on those items, and to impose antiterrorism controls on certain items that are excluded from the Dual Use List. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site an updated list of non-vessel operating common carrier (NVOCC) participants in the Sea Automated Manifest System (AMS). CBP's list of NVOCC Sea AMS participants is updated as of May 10, 2004. The Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA) has published a notice denying a petition submitted on behalf of Dillards, Inc. and BWA, Inc., which had alleged that certain 100% cotton woven flannel fabrics, made from 14 through 41 NM single ring-spun yarns of different colors, classified in HTS 5208.43.00, of 2 x 1 twill weave construction, weighing not more than 200 grams per square meter, for use in apparel articles, excluding gloves, could not be supplied by the domestic industry in commercial quantities in a timely manner. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) has issued a notice announcing that it has determined not to initiate an investigation regarding a Section 301 petition filed by the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) which addressed workers' rights in China. The International Trade Administration (ITA) frequently issues notices on antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) duty orders which Broker Power considers to be "minor" in importance as they concern actions that occur after an order is issued and neither announce nor cause any changes to an order's duty rates, scope, affected firms, or effective period. |