Port of Long Beach officials have dedicated a new Clean Trucks Sales and Leasing office and handed over the keys to the first two big-rigs leased through the Port's Clean Trucks Program. The Port of Long Beach also issued a noticeon its October 22, 2008 workshop on the Clean Trucks Program for cargo owners in Long Beach, CA ; a notice on the placement of compliance stickers on non-container trucks; and a notice on the use of temporary access stickers on trucks working for Licensed Motor Carriers (LMCs). (LB press release available at http://www.polb.com/news/displaynews.asp?NewsID=466&targetid=1)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a general notice containing guidelines for the assessment of claims for liquidated damages and the mitigation of those claims, when participants fail to pay or untimely pay estimated duties and fees under the NCAP test1 for the Periodic Monthly Statement2 payment process.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has issued a proposed rule which would revise and update certain procedures and requirements for the importation, interstate movement, and environmental release of certain genetically engineered (GE) organisms in order to bring the regulations under 7 CFR Part 340 into alignment with the Plant Protection Act. Comments are due by November 24, 2008.
In the October 9, 2008 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (Vol. 42, No. 42), CBP published a notice proposing to revoke one ruling and revoke a treatment as follows:
In the October 9, 2008 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (Vol. 42, No. 42), CBP published a notice proposing to modify one ruling and revoke a treatment as follows:
In the October 9, 2008 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (Vol. 42, No. 42), CBP published a notice proposing to revoke one ruling and treatment as follows:
The International Trade Administration is initiating and issuing preliminary results of an antidumping duty changed circumstances review of polychloroprene rubber (PCR) from Japan to determine whether partial revocation of the AD duty finding is warranted with respect to certain content requirements.
The International Trade Administration has issued a notice announcing that it is revoking the countervailing duty order on dynamic random access memory semiconductors (DRAMs) from Korea.
The Bureau of Industry and Security has issued a proposed rule to establish a new License Exception "Intra-Company Transfer" (ICT) to allow an approved parent company and its approved wholly-owned or controlled in fact entities to export, reexport, or transfer (in-country) many items on the Commerce Control List (CCL) among themselves for internal company use without individual export licenses.