The Food and Drug Administration will be holding a public meeting on May 1, 2009 in College Park, MD pertaining to economically motivated adulteration (EMA). FDA is also accepting written comments on this issue by August 1, 2009.
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has published in the Federal Register its notice of initiation of a Section 301 investigation and determinations therein, which imposes an additional 10% duty on imports of certain softwood lumber products of Canada, whose Region of Origin is Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba, or Saskatchewan, in response to Canada's failure to cure its breach of the 2006 Softwood Lumber Agreement between the U.S. and Canada (SLA 2006) or provide the monetary compensation determined by a SLA arbitral tribunal. The additional duty is effective for products that are entered for consumption or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption on or after April 15, 2009. (See ITT's Online Archives or 04/08/09 news, 09040805, for previous BP summary.) (D/N USTR-2009-0011, FR Pub 04/10/09, available at http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/pdf/E9-8232.pdf)
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has issued a proposed rule to amend its regulations to provide for the resumption of imports of certain wooden handicrafts from China under certain conditions.
U.S. Trade Representative Kirk has announced that the U.S. will impose an additional 10% duty on imports of certain softwood lumber products of Canada, whose Region of Origin is Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba, or Saskatchewan, in response to Canada's failure to cure its breach of the 2006 Softwood Lumber Agreement between the U.S. and Canada (SLA 2006) or provide the monetary compensation determined by a SLA arbitral tribunal.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued a notice seeking comments on how to revise the Voluntary Product Standard (PS) 20-05, "American Softwood Lumber Standard."
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a notice announcing the public roundtable it will hold on cribs1 and other sleeping environments for infants at its headquarters in Bethesda, MD on April 22, 2009.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has issued a final rule, effective April 29, 20091, which incrementally increases user fees in fiscal years 2009 through 2013 for import- and export-related services that APHIS provides for animals, animal products, birds, germ plasm, organisms, and vectors.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a joint "Asian Gypsy Moth Maritime Alert" issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) calling for shipping lines to order all vessel crews to conduct intensive vessel inspections to remove (scrape off) and destroy all Asian gypsy moth (AGM) egg masses prior to entering U.S. and Canadian ports. The alert also provides specific actions for vessels transiting/calling on far east Russia, Japan, China, and Korea.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has published in the Federal Register a proposed rule that would establish guidelines and requirements for mandatory recall notices ordered by (i) the CPSC or (ii) by a U.S. District Court under the Consumer Product Safety Act (CPSA).
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has posted a proposed rule to its Web site that would establish guidelines and requirements for mandatory recall notices ordered by the CPSC or by a U.S. District Court under the Consumer Product Safety Act (CPSA).