The Consumer Product Safety Commission has published notice of the following voluntary recall:

The Food and Drug Administration has posted revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:

The International Trade Commission has instituted a new investigation to provide information and advice on adding over 700 pharmaceutical products and chemical intermediates to the Pharmaceutical Appendix to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule.

The Federal Highway Administration has issued a press release announcing that has launched a new web-based tool, FPMweb, to pinpoint freight congestion.

The Bureau of Industry and Security has announced that it will be holding its Annual Update Conference on Export Controls and Policy on August 31 - September 2, 2010 in Washington, DC.

The U.S. Trade Representative announced that on June 8, 2010, the U.S. and the European Union signed an agreement designed to lead to settlement of the longstanding dispute brought by certain Latin American countries and the U.S. over the EU's bananas trading regime.

The U.S. and India concluded their first Strategic Dialogue between Secretary of State Clinton and India External Affairs Minister Krishna on June 1-4, 2010. Topics included advancing global security and countering terrorism, information technology and cyberspace, and trade and economic relations. Both committed to approach the issue of export controls for high technology products as a strategic partnership.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has posted notice to the motor carrier industry and the public of regulatory guidance and policy changes regarding the retention of supporting documents and the use of electronic mobile communication/tracking technology in assessing motor carriers’ and commercial motor vehicle drivers’ compliance with the hours of service regulations. According to FMCSA, this change in policy will take effect 30 days after its publication in the Federal Register. Written comments are due by July 9, 2010.

The Foreign Agriculture Service issued the following GAIN reports:

The Directorate of Defense Trade Controls has updated its guidance on supporting documentation for DSP-73 (temporary export) and DSP-61 (temporary import) license applications, in order to remove paper transmittal letter instructions, as all license applications must now be submitted electronically via D-Trade2.