U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a press release announcing that Commissioner Robert Bonner has selected Gary M. Shiffman as his Chief of Staff.
On May 11, 2004, President Bush signed Executive Order (EO) 13338 which implemented sanctions on Syria as a result of the Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2003 (Public Law (P.L.) 108-175. EO 13338 entered into effect at 12:01 eastern daylight time on May 12, 2004.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has recently posted to its Web site Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) which CBP states addresses certain recurring questions for Customs brokers regarding trade names and corporations, as follows:
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has issued a notice, dated May 6, 2004, listing the ruminant-derived products from Canada for which it will issue import permits.
ITA sources state that Dongkuk's AD rate of 0.85% already reflects an adjustment for export subsidies found in the companion countervailing (CV) duty investigation.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued its April 2004 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Modernization newsletter, which is highlighted below:
The General Accounting Office (GAO) has issued Congressional testimony, given on March 31, 2004, which contends that while U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has taken steps to address the terrorism risks posed by oceangoing cargo containers, its strategy neither incorporates all key elements of a risk management framework nor is it entirely consistent with recognized modeling practices.
On May 5, 2004, the House Ways and Means Committee amended and ordered reported (i.e., approved) H.R. 4103, the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) Acceleration Act of 2004. (This bill is often referred to as "AGOA III.")
The National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has issued a proposed rule which would adjust the regulations governing the trade of tuna and tuna-like species in the North and South Atlantic Ocean to implement recommendations adopted at the 2002 and 2003 meetings of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna (ICCAT).
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) has issued a determination that suppliers from the 10 new European Community (EC) member states are eligible to participate in U.S. government procurement under the same terms and conditions as suppliers from countries that were already covered by the World Trade Organization's (WTO's) Government Procurement Agreement (GPA).