The FDA is considering charging fees for including firms on its export lists, which help give foreign governments and other parties information about whether a U.S. food export meets FDA standards or other U.S. regulations. Although the agency doesn’t currently charge firms to be included on export lists for human food, it said Nov. 8 it’s considering charging fees “to offset our costs.”
The Fish and Wildlife Service has put the Ocmulgee skullcap (Scutellaria ocmulgee), a plant species from Georgia and South Carolina, on the endangered species list, it said in a Federal Register notice. The inclusion is effective Nov. 29.
The State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls is starting to apply “data identification markings” to all documents attached to commodity jurisdiction and advisory opinion submissions, which will identify documents that are “SBU” (sensitive but unclassified) or as “PII” (personally identifiable information). DDTC said the change will “better manage the information being stored and transmitted within” the agency’s Defense Export Control and Compliance System (DECCS). “This will not impact requests in progress,” DDTC said. “If you receive an email from ‘Auto Classification User’, this is a notice that a document you have submitted was updated. No action is required.”
The Fish and Wildlife Service has downgraded the red-cockaded woodpecker (Dryobates (= Picoides) borealis) from an endangered species to a threatened species. However, restrictions on imports and exports will remain in effect under a 4(d) rule adopted by the agency. The final rule is effective Nov. 25, FWS said in a notice.
The Drug Enforcement Administration is listing ethylphenidate, a central nervous system stimulant, under Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, it said in a notice released Oct. 21. Import and export restrictions set by the listing take effect Nov. 21.
The Census Bureau on Oct. 21 updated one port of unlading code name and added multiple ports of unlading codes to the Automated Export System. It updated the code name for the port in Whonnock, British Columbia, and added new codes for ports in Colombia, India, Vietnam and Indonesia.
The Census Bureau emailed tips on how to address the most frequent messages generated this month in the Automated Export System.
CBP is again extending a deadline to allow users more time to continue submitting certain documents through the Document Imaging System in preparation for the agency’s upcoming Electronic Export Manifest mandate (see 2207290035 and 2209150014), the agency said in a CSMS message last week.
The Census Bureau emailed tips this week on how to address the most frequent messages generated this month in the Automated Export System.
The Census Bureau is deploying a new fatal error message in the Automated Export System to alert filers that the ultimate consignee country can’t be reported as the U.S. when the ultimate country of destination is neither the U.S. nor Puerto Rico. The response message will be active in the AES certification testing environment Sept. 16 and will go into the production environment Sept. 30, Census said in a Sept. 13 email to industry.