The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has placed temporary restrictions on the importation of sexually intact bovines (cattle and bison) from British Columbia. These restrictions are based on recent importations of three cows from the province found to be reactors for brucellosis on slaughter testing.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is announcing that it notified U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on April 22, 2010, that effective immediately APHIS veterinary services has placed temporary restrictions on certain commodities from Japan due to foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), based on notifications from Japan of an outbreak in cattle that is consistent with FMD.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology posts drafts and changes to foreign technical regulations for manufactured products which may be considered technical barriers to trade and are therefore required to be reported to the World Trade Organization, which distributes the information to WTO Member countries.
The Directorate of Defense Trade Controls has posted revised versions of the following guidances:
The State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls has added information on electronic agreements submitted as re-baselined agreements to its Guidelines for Preparing Electronic Agreements concerning electronic agreements submitted as re-baselined agreements.
The International Trade Administration has issued a fact sheet announcing its affirmative final determinations in the antidumping and countervailing duty investigations of certain steel grating from China.
The Foreign Trade Zone Board has issued a memorandum1 stating that the deferred and possibly reduced duty benefits provided by the FTZ Act2 for imported merchandise admitted into a FTZ for use as production equipment begins when the FTZ manufacturing/processing application is pending approval.
The International Trade Administration has amended its preliminary countervailing duty determination on certain coated paper suitable for high-quality print graphics using sheet-fed presses from China (C-570-959).
The Foreign Agricultural Service has released a new U.S. Agricultural Trade Outlook Forecast for fiscal year 2010, which found that U.S. farmers, ranchers and producers are poised to achieve $104.5 billion in sales -- an $8 billion increase over last year and the second highest level in history.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology posts drafts and changes to foreign technical regulations for manufactured products which may be considered technical barriers to trade and are therefore required to be reported to the World Trade Organization, which distributes the information to WTO Member countries.