The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has placed temporary restrictions on the importation of sexually intact bovines (cattle and bison) from British Columbia. These restrictions are based on recent importations of three cows from the province found to be reactors for brucellosis on slaughter testing.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is announcing that it notified U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on April 22, 2010, that effective immediately APHIS veterinary services has placed temporary restrictions on certain commodities from Japan due to foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), based on notifications from Japan of an outbreak in cattle that is consistent with FMD.
The Office of Management and Budget has approved a Bureau of Industry and Security proposed rule to add certain standards and procedures for assigning priority ratings to purchase orders or contracts and for allocating materials, services, and facilities to promote the national defense.
The International Trade Administration has issued a fact sheet announcing its affirmative final determinations in the antidumping and countervailing duty investigations of certain steel grating from China.
The Foreign Trade Zone Board has issued a memorandum1 stating that the deferred and possibly reduced duty benefits provided by the FTZ Act2 for imported merchandise admitted into a FTZ for use as production equipment begins when the FTZ manufacturing/processing application is pending approval.
The Foreign Agricultural Service has released a new U.S. Agricultural Trade Outlook Forecast for fiscal year 2010, which found that U.S. farmers, ranchers and producers are poised to achieve $104.5 billion in sales -- an $8 billion increase over last year and the second highest level in history.
The International Trade Administration has made a final affirmative antidumping duty determination that certain potassium phosphate salts from China (A-570-962) are being, or are likely to be, sold in the U.S. at less than fair value.