USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has amended restrictions for importing tomatoes and peppers to reflect recent study findings on how the tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV) gets transported.
Joanna Marsh
Joanna Marsh, Assistant Editor, International Trade Today, joined Warren Communications News in 2024 after covering the supply chain from the transportation angle for a decade. At ITT, she covers U.S. import compliance and import regulations related to U.S. Customs and Border Protection and partnering governing agencies. She has covered the U.S. and Canadian freight railroads for FreightWaves, and she has also written about maritime transport trends, climate change, and AI and machine learning trends for publications such as Railway Age, Transport Topics, Breakbulk Magazine and the Freight Business Journal of North America. She also worked the U.S. coal markets beat for Argus Media.
Share Logistics, a company headquartered in Rotterdam, Netherlands, has acquired New Jersey-based customs broker Export-Import Services, the buyer announced in a June 13 news release.
Comments are due by July 29 on an EPA proposed rule under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to restrict the use and handling of the solvent n-methylpyrrolidone (NMP) (see 2406060008), according to a June 14 notice in the Federal Register. The substance is used in the manufacturing and production of electronics, polymers, agricultural chemicals and petrochemical products, the agency said in a June 5 news release.
USDA has determined the total amounts of WTO tariff-rate quotas for raw cane sugar and certain sugars for FY 2025. The agency established that from Oct. 1, 2024, to Sept. 30, 2025, the in-quota aggregate quantity of raw cane sugar will be at 1,117,195 metric tons raw value (MTRV), while the FY 2025 in-quota aggregate quantity of certain molasses (or refined sugar) will be at 232,000 MTRV. USDA's notice will be effective on June 14, the date that it will be published in the Federal Register.
Importers and the broader trade industry should expect DHS in the coming months to expand the business sectors under scrutiny for companies’ adherence to forced labor guidelines within the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, DHS Undersecretary for Policy Robert Silvers said during a June 12 webinar sponsored by Kharon, a risk analytics platform.
Texas United Chemical Company (TUCC) of Dallas evaded antidumping duties when importing xanthan gum from China and will face action per the Enforce and Protect Act, CBP ruled recently.
CBP has levied actions against Besttn Industry of South El Monte, California, for working with Kingway Pipe of China to evade antidumping and countervailing duties on cast iron soil pipe fittings and cast iron soil pipes from China.
The Canada Border Services Agency has reached a tentative labor agreement with union members working for the agency, staving off a potential strike or work stoppage (see 2406100049). The renewed collective agreement will apply to approximately 11,000 employees after it’s ratified, according to a June 11 release from the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service recognized the U.K. and 21 EU member states as being free from the citrus longhorned beetle (CLB) and Asian longhorned beetle (ALB), according to a notice released June 11. As a result, APHIS is removing these countries from the list of countries where CLB and ALB are present. In addition to this change, the agency also said it is changing the entry conditions and relieving certain restrictions on imports of host plants of CLB and ALB into the U.S. from Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, and the U.K. The changes are effective June 12. Meanwhile, EU member states that continue to be listed as countries where ALB and/or CLB are present are: Austria, Croatia, Finland, France, Germany and Italy.
DHS has added three more companies to the list of companies cited for using forced labor from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), according to a notice.