Consumer Product Safety Commission sources have confirmed that senior management from CPSC and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are in the final stages of negotiations concerning detentions, and CPSC now expects to begin issuing its own detention notices as early as June 2010.
On May 6, 2010, the Food and Drug Administration’s Deputy Commissioner for Foods Michael Taylor testified at a House Subcommittee1 hearing on “the Role and Performance of FDA in Ensuring Food Safety.”
On May 5, 2010, the Clean and Sustainable Transportation Coalition sent a letter to leaders of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s Highways and Transit Subcommittee1 urging them to reject efforts to re-write the trucking rules in the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act.
The perceived industry impact on proposed FCC reclassification of broadband transport as a common carrier service subject to six sections of the Communications Act may fall most heavily on cable operators, investor interviews and stock prices Thursday show. Cable operators largely aren’t regulated under Title II and putting their broadband services under it means the companies will be more heavily regulated, some investors and analysts said. Telcos have always had wireline operations subject to Title II, though their financial outlook is also affected by regulatory uncertainty, analysts and industry officials said.
The Federal Maritime Commission has issued a proposed rule to amend 46 CFR Part 520 and create a new Part 532 to make available to licensed non-vessel-operating common carriers (NVOCCs) a new, voluntary exemption from the requirement to publish rate tariffs, if they agree to Negotiated Rate Arrangements (NRAs) with their shippers.
The Food and Drug Administration has issued a proposed rule to amend its regulations governing medical device establishment registration and device listing. Comments on FDA’s proposed rule are due by June 24, 2010.
Broker Power is now issuing weekly summary reports highlighting the most active textile and apparel tariff preference levels1 from U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s “Quota Weekly Commodity Status Report.” BP’s weekly report also lists the TRQ commodities on CBP’s weekly “TRQ/TPL Threshold to Fill List.”
The Treasury Department has published its spring 2010 semi-annual regulatory agenda for U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted the March 2010 Trade Support Network monthly activity report, which summarizes the activity of all of the TSN Committees and Subcommittees for that month.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted the April 2010 customs broker license exam and answer key. According to CBP sources, the pass rate for the April exam was 11.1%.