The Foreign Agriculture Service issued the following GAIN reports:
The Food and Drug Administration has posted revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The International Trade Administration has made a preliminary affirmative antidumping determination that seamless refined copper pipe and tube from China is being, or is likely to be, sold in the U.S. at less than fair value (A-570-964).
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced a voluntary recall by Claire's Boutiques of certain children’s bracelet sets due to high cadmium levels. This is the third action against children's metal jewelry with high cadmium levels that CPSC has taken since it launched its investigation of such products in January 2010.
The International Trade Administration has made a preliminary affirmative antidumping determination that seamless refined copper pipe and tube from Mexico is being, or is likely to be, sold in the U.S. at less than fair value (A-201-838).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a memorandum announcing that the fourth tranche for the fiscal year 2010 specialty sugar tariff rate quota opens on Monday, May 17, 2010 at 12:00 p.m. EST, or its equivalent in other time zones.
The Foreign Agricultural Service has posted a circular on the world market for cotton, which states that stocks are tightening worldwide as consumption outpaces increases in production. A second circular states that world production has jumped 11 percent. FAS also states that the gap between global production and consumption of grain has narrowed. A second report on Nigerian wheat imports is also available.
The Office of Foreign Assets Control is publishing the names of three individuals and three entities in Colombia and Spain whose property and interests in property have been unblocked pursuant to Executive Order 12978, "Blocking Assets and Prohibiting Transactions With Significant Narcotics Traffickers," effective May 6, 2010. (OFAC notice, FR Pub 05/12/10, available at http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/pdf/2010-11221.pdf)
The Office of Foreign Assets Control is removing the names of three individuals in Indonesia and the Philippines from the list of Specially Designated Nationals and blocked persons whose property and interests in property have been blocked under Executive Order 13224 on terrorism, effective May 6, 2010. (OFAC notice, FR Pub 05/12/10, available at http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/pdf/2010-11220.pdf)
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Administrator Ferro stated in April 28, 2010 testimony before a Subcommittee of Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation, that even with the continued growth in commercial vehicle traffic, the data shows that our Nation's highways experienced their lowest number of fatalities (4,525 in 2008) from crashes involving large trucks and buses since fatal crash data collection began in 1975. (Testimony, dated 04/28/10, available at http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/about/news/speeches/Written-Testimony-for-Administrator-Anne-Ferro.aspx)