The Directorate of Defense Trade Controls has posted a report entitled "End-Use Monitoring of Defense Articles and Defense Services Commercial Exports FY 2008," which describes actions taken by the Department of State during fiscal year 2008 to implement the “Blue Lantern” end-use monitoring program.
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Manufacturing and Services Lamb-Hale highlighted the importance of supply chain efficiency in supporting the President’s National Export Initiative at the June 4, 2010 opening of a new cement plant in Bloomsdale, Mo., which will make the material needed to build the roads, buildings, and other structures that will make the U.S. productive.
The Office of Foreign Assets Control has issued its civil penalties enforcement information for June 3, 2010. KLM Cargo was assessed $5,336.26 for violating the Sudanese Sanctions Regulations.
Broker Power is now issuing weekly summary reports highlighting the most active textile and apparel tariff preference levels1 from U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s “Quota Weekly Commodity Status Report.” BP’s weekly report also lists the TRQ commodities on CBP’s weekly “TRQ/TPL Threshold to Fill List.” The data listed below is current as of June 4, 2010.
The International Trade Administration has issued a fact sheet announcing its affirmative preliminary determination in the countervailing duty investigation of drill pipe from China.
The Directorate of Defense Trade Controls has updated its guidance on supporting documentation for DSP-73 (temporary export) and DSP-61 (temporary import) license applications, in order to remove paper transmittal letter instructions, as all license applications must now be submitted electronically via D-Trade2.
The U.S. and India concluded their first Strategic Dialogue between Secretary of State Clinton and India External Affairs Minister Krishna on June 1-4, 2010. Topics included advancing global security and countering terrorism, information technology and cyberspace, and trade and economic relations. Both committed to approach the issue of export controls for high technology products as a strategic partnership.
The U.S. Trade Representative announced that on June 8, 2010, the U.S. and the European Union signed an agreement designed to lead to settlement of the longstanding dispute brought by certain Latin American countries and the U.S. over the EU's bananas trading regime.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has posted notice to the motor carrier industry and the public of regulatory guidance and policy changes regarding the retention of supporting documents and the use of electronic mobile communication/tracking technology in assessing motor carriers’ and commercial motor vehicle drivers’ compliance with the hours of service regulations. According to FMCSA, this change in policy will take effect 30 days after its publication in the Federal Register. Written comments are due by July 9, 2010.
The International Trade Administration is implementing a pilot program from July 1 through September 30, 2010 to test an electronic system for submitting documents in certain antidumping and countervailing duty proceedings, entitled Import Administration’s Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Centralized Electronic Service System (IA ACCESS).