The effective date for revised FCC Forms 301, 314, 315 and 345 is May 21, a public notice said.
The National Marine Fisheries Service has issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking to announce that it is revising the procedures for filing import and export documentation for certain fishery products to meet requirements of the SAFE Port Act of
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has issued a proposed rule to establish a new process to provide the public with notice and the opportunity to comment on changes to phytosanitary treatment schedules, and to remove the lists of authorized treatments and schedules from its phytosanitary treatment regulations1 in order to integrate them into its Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) Treatment Manual.
In light of an "agreement in principle" recently reached with the European Union in the long-standing EU - beef hormones dispute, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has announced that it will delay certain sanction modifications that were due to take effect May 9, 20091, in order to allow time for the provisional agreement to be finalized.
The U.S. Trade Representative released the annual Special 301 report Thursday, a list of nations whose intellectual property rights enforcement isn’t considered up to par, and reaction spanned from praise from industry and intellectual property groups to condemnation of the review process. The inclusion of Canada on the priority watch list alongside China, Russia, Venezuela and others was particularly noted. Twelve nations were placed on the priority watch list and 33 on the watch list.
"Daily Update on Capitol Hill Trade Actions" is a regular feature of International Trade Today. The following are brief summaries of recent Capitol Hill actions.
CBP has issued a CSMS message stating that it has come to its attention that some surety companies and some customs brokers, acting as agents for sureties, are using CBP 301 (customs bond) forms which include extraneous information such as "Power of Attorney Limited to [dollar amount]." All sureties and brokers are instructed to discontinue, effective immediately, use of any CBP 301 form which has such extraneous information. (See ITT's Online Archives or 02/05/08 news, 08020505, for BP summary announcing that CBP would reject CBP 301 bond forms or bond riders submitted with extraneous liability limitation language effective February 11, 2008.) (CSMS 09-000209, dated 04/29/09, available at http://apps.cbp.gov/csms/viewmssg.asp?Recid=17599&page=&srch_argv=09-000209&srchtype=all&btype=&sortby=&sby)
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has issued a two-page progress report for the first 100 days since the Administration change, highlighting their successes in this time period as follows:
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has released its 2009 "Special 301" annual report on the adequacy and effectiveness of intellectual property rights (IPR) protection by U.S. trading partners.
On April 22, 2009, Senator Sherrod Brown1 addressed the Washington International Trade Association (WITA) to discuss U.S. trade policy. Highlights of his written remarks include the following: