The State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls has posted the presentations from the July 7, 2010 Plenary Meeting of the Defense Trade Advisory Group.
Various U.S. government agencies are seeking comments on the following information collections for which they have requested or intend to request Office of Management and Budget approval or extension of approval (see notices for specific details):
The Food Safety and Inspection Service has issued an updated version (July 7, 2010) of its list of Canadian firms eligible to export meat and poultry to the U.S.
The Treasury Department has issued a statement welcoming the European Parliament's consent on July 8, 2010, by a wide margin, to the revised U.S.-EU agreement on the processing and transfer of financial messaging data for the purposes of the Treasury Department's Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (TFTP).
The Environmental Protection Agency announced that Monsanto Company Inc., of St. Louis, Missouri, has agreed to pay a $2.5 million penalty to resolve misbranding violations related to the sale and distribution of cotton seed products containing genetically engineered pesticides. This is the largest civil administrative penalty settlement ever received under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA).
The Office of the U.S.Trade Representative is providing notice of country-by-country allocations of a second additional fiscal year 2010 in-quota quantity of the tariff-rate quota for imported raw cane sugar in the amount of 272,155 metric tons raw value in specified amounts to 25 countries. (See ITT's Online Archives or 07/08/09 news, 10070804, for previous BP summary.)
The International Trade Administration announces that the U.S. Travel and Tourism Advisory Board will hold a meeting to discuss topics related to the travel and tourism industry on July 26, 2010. The agenda for the meeting includes discussion efforts in the Gulf region and other topics.