The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notice for Feb. 12:
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will no longer issue export health certifications to the European Union for farm-raised scallops, it said in a Feb. 6 memorandum from the NOAA Seafood Inspection Program. NOAA was recently informed by the EU that neither the U.S. nor China is authorized to export farmed scallops "or the species Argopecten irradians to the EU,” the agency said. “To be clear, the United States is not officially authorized to certify transshipped molluscan shellfish from a third country, nor is the U.S. authorized to certify molluscan shellfish shipped to the EU. The sole exception is an allowance to certify adductor muscles of wild-caught (not farmed) scallops from a third country. Therefore SIP will no longer issue export health certification to the EU for farm-raised Chinese scallops. If conditions change, we will alert all concerned,” NOAA said.
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notice for Feb. 9:
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notice for Feb. 8:
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 through Sept. 30, 2017. The agency found that only Canada is providing subsidies, in the form of export assistance.
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notice for Feb. 6:
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notice for Feb. 2:
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notice for Jan. 31:
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notice for Jan. 30:
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross on Jan. 19 formally submitted to President Donald Trump the results of the department's Section 232 investigation on the national security effects of imports of wrought and unwrought aluminum, Commerce said in a Jan. 22 news release. Submission of the report starts a 90-day clock for Trump to decide whether to impose any import restrictions under the investigation, Commerce said. The recommendations, along with those submitted Jan. 11 in an ongoing Section 232 investigation on steel (see 1801120023), include a “wide range of options” from measures “specifically targeting ‘bad actors’” in the steel and aluminum industries to broader tariffs on steel and aluminum, according to a report from CNBC.