The Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with Maytag Corporation, have announced a voluntary recall of 1.7 million Maytag®, Amana®, Jenn-Air®, Admiral®, Magic Chef®, Performa by Maytag® and Crosley® brand dishwashers with plastic tubs and certain serial numbers due to a fire hazard.
The Food Safety and Inspection Service has issued updated version of its list of Brazil (May 28, 2010) establishments eligible to export meat and poultry to the U.S.
The Directorate of Defense Trade Controls has published the unclassified version of its recommendations to the State Department for 2010-2012 Defense Trade Advisory Group (DTAG) membership.
On May 28, 2010, APHIS updated the Manual for Agricultural Clearance. The manual provides CBP personnel working at airport and maritime locations with the guidelines, directions, and policy for clearing carriers and passengers/crew and controlling garbage and cargo.
The International Trade Administration has issued a notice announcing the opportunity for interested parties to request administrative reviews by June 30, 2010 for the following antidumping duty orders and suspension agreement.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology posts drafts and changes to foreign technical regulations for manufactured products which may be considered technical barriers to trade and are therefore required to be reported to the World Trade Organization, which distributes the information to WTO Member countries.
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics reports that trade using surface transportation between the U.S., and Canada/Mexico was 37% higher in March 2010 than in March 2009, reaching $69.9 billion. However, freight value in March 2010 still remained 1.2 percent less than the value in March 2008, two years earlier.
The International Trade Administration frequently issues notices on antidumping and countervailing duty orders, investigations, etc. which Broker Power considers to be "minor” in importance as they concern actions that occur after an order is issued, neither announce nor cause any changes to an order’s duty rates, scope, affected firms, or effective period, etc.