The Commerce Department issued its quarterly update to its annual list of foreign government subsidies on articles of cheese subject to an in-quota rate of duty that were imported during the period July 1, 2013, through Sept. 30, 2013.
The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for March 27:
The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for March 26:
The City of Leesburg filed an application for a new foreign-trade zone in Lake County, Florida, said the FTZ Board in a March 27 notice. The proposed FTZ would only include Lake County, adjacent to the Leesburg CBP user-fee airport. Comments on the proposed FTZ are due May 27.
The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued a final rule to amend the Commerce Control List (CCL) entry in the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) that controls equipment capable of handling biological materials, along with other changes, to reflect an understanding reached at the 2013 Australia Group meeting and an intercessional Australia Group meeting in 2012. The Australia Group is an informal coalition of more than 40 nations (here). This final rule also amends the CCL entry that controls certain animal pathogens, and the rule amends the EAR to add Mexico as a participating country in the Australia Group.
The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for March 25:
The Commerce Department’s Office of Textiles and Apparel (OTEXA) recently received two requests to put new yarns on the short supply list for the U.S.-South Korea Free Trade Agreement (KFTA). In a request submitted March 18, Heritage Cashmere Korea requests that OTEXA place certain cashmere yarns on the short supply list. In another request filed March 11, Dae Yong Textile requests that certain textured and non-textured cuprammonium rayon filament yarns be added to the list.
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board announced the approval of a merger and reorganization of two FTZs located in New York City. FTZ 1 near the Port of N.Y./N.J. and FTZ 111 at John F. Kennedy International Airport will now together be designated FTZ 1. The combined zone will cover a service area of New York, Bronx, Queens, Kings, and Richmond Counties. It is also being reorganized under the Alternative Site Framework, which means companies within the service area can now request subzone status through the relatively simple “minor boundary modification” process. The City of New York requested the merger and reorganization in October (see 13102411).
The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for March 21:
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board is establishing a new FTZ around Rochester, N.Y., it said in a March 20 Federal Register notice. New FTZ 289 will serve Ontario, Wayne, Seneca, Yates, Steuben and Livingston Counties under the alternative site framework, which provides a streamlined process for companies to apply for subzone status. The zone was requested by Ontario County in August (see 13082715). It will be the third FTZ in the Rochester area, with FTZ 141 and FTZ 284 already serving Monroe and Genesee Counties, respectively.