The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has issued a notice which extends the time it has to issue a proposed rule to address the possible unreasonable risk of injury and death associated with the mechanical malfunction of cigarette lighters.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site an "ACE Toolkit," which consists of three documents: (i) Overview of Periodic Monthly Statement; (ii) Entry Summary Accounts Revenue (ESAR) I & II Overview; and (iii) ACE Ambassador Locations. According to CBP, the toolkit provides a general overview of the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) and various components of key functionality.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has issued a proposed rule that would make several changes to the exotic Newcastle disease (END) domestic quarantine regulations. In addition, the proposed rule contains one change to the importation regulations.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has issued a final rule to add a new Part 1633 to 16 CFR in order to establish flammability (open flame) requirements that all "mattress sets" must meet before sale or introduction into commerce. The purpose of the flammability standard is to reduce deaths and injuries associated with mattress fires by limiting the size of the fire generated by a mattress set during a thirty-minute test.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has issued a final rule, effective March 7, 2006, which amends 7 CFR Part 319 to allow certain types of peppers grown in approved registered production sites in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua to be imported, under certain conditions, into the U.S. without treatment.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has issued a press release announcing that on April 3, 2006, it launched ePermits, a new Web-based system to streamline the import process.
The Office of U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) has released its 2006 National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers (NTE), which is an annual report documenting foreign trade and investment barriers and U.S. efforts to reduce and eliminate those barriers.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a news release announcing that it has issued warning letters to two manufacturers and two distributors of unapproved drugs containing steroids.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has issued a final rule, effective March 14, 2006, in order to amend its January 2005 final rule which established bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) minimal risk regions and added Canada to this category of regions.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a notice on the CAFTA-DR tariff rate quotas (TRQs) that have been implemented for the March 1, 2006 - December 31, 2006 period for certain "qualifying" agricultural products (except sugar) from El Salvador, the only country to date that the U.S. has implemented the CAFTA-DR for.