The Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced a closed meeting on June 16, 2010, in which the staff will brief the Commission on various compliance matters.
The Commerce Department states that senior Commerce officials and more than 400 companies from the U.S, Haiti and the Dominican Republic attended the “Building a New Haiti: Commerce, Business, Investment” conference in Montrouis on June 10, 2010 -- the first meeting to bring companies from all three countries together since the January 12 earthquake.
On March 16, 2010, the Congressional Research Service issued a report entitled “the Haitian Economy and the HOPE Act.” The CRS report discussed the impact that Haitian Hemispheric Opportunity through Partnership Encouragement Acts of 2006 and 2008 (i.e., HOPE I and HOPE II) has had on the Haitian economy. Many of the legislative improvements discussed in the CRS report were included in the Haiti Economic Lift Program (HELP) Act, which was signed into law on May 24, 2010.
On June 9, 2010, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated two individuals and two entities linked to the international drug trafficking organization La Familia Michoacana as Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers (SDNTs).
On June 10, 2010, the Commerce Department's Census and Economic Analysis Bureaus released its April 2010 U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services report, which showed that U.S. exports in April 2010 decreased by 0.7 percent to $148.8 billion from their March 2010 level. Imports in April decreased 0.4 percent over March to $189.1 billion.
The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) has issued a notice that lists those applying for ocean transportation intermediary licenses as a non-vessel-operating common carrier (NVOCC), ocean freight forwarder (FF) or NVOCC/FF OTI, as follows: