The National Marine Fisheries Service announced a series of meetings to discuss new import filing and record-keeping requirements under its Seafood Import Monitoring Program (here). The meetings will also cover the program’s provisions and implementation, the related NMFS ACE filing pilot, as well as traceability data and supply chain record-keeping requirements set by the final rule, which was issued in December and begins taking effect in January 2018 (see 1612080014). The first four meetings will be held in: Long Beach, California, on July 13; Seattle on July 18; Elizabeth, New Jersey, on July 20; and Miami on July 25. “Additional public meetings in the U.S. and abroad may be added and will be announced online at least one week in advance of the meeting(s) at www.iuufishing.noaa.gov,” NMFS said.
The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notice for July 7:
The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for July 6:
The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for July 5:
The American Association of Exporters and Importers (AAEI) and the National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC) differed on whether import restraints on primary aluminum should be on the table for the Trump administration’s ongoing review of the national security impacts of aluminum imports. The Commerce Department posted comments on the administration's ongoing Section 232 investigation into aluminum imports last week (here). NFTC said that measures limiting importation of primary aluminum would hurt U.S. jobs supported by the aluminum industry and reduce exports of can sheet to Canada and Mexico, assuming primary aluminum costs rise (here).
The Commerce Department is postponing until Sept. 25 the preliminary determination in its countervailing duty investigation on 100- to 150-seat large civil aircraft from Canada (C-122-860) (here), based on a request from the petitioner. Boeing requested the investigations in late April (see 1704280027). Cash deposits of estimated CV duties can only be collected after the preliminary determination, although cash deposits can be made retroactive 90 days from the preliminary determination if Commerce finds “critical circumstances.”
The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for July 3:
The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notice for June 26:
The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for June 23:
NAFTA renegotiations could progress into 2018, despite hopes of finishing this year, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said June 19 at the Commerce Department-sponsored Select USA Summit (here). “In an ideal world, we’d try to get it done by the end of this calendar year,” Ross said. “That would be a record speed for any big trade negotiation. So I don’t know whether we’ll be able to do that. But we are certainly mindful of the calendar, and that the calendar is fundamentally not our friend.” Ross highlighted last month that the mid-2018 Mexican presidential election, the July 2018 expiration of Trade Promotion Authority, and the 2018 U.S. midterm elections could complicate NAFTA talks (see 1706010044).