The FDA will delay cosmetics registration and listing requirements that had been set to take effect at the end of the year until July 1, 2024, the agency said in a guidance document issued Nov. 8. The delay comes in response to industry concerns that more time is needed to “gather the relevant information required for facility registration and product listing,” access the relevant databases and submit that information to FDA.
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RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. – The Federal Maritime Commission must eliminate the "perverse incentive" for ocean carriers and marine terminal operators to allow congestion as a way to make more money, FMC Chair Dan Maffei said, speaking Oct. 27 at the Pacific Coast Council's Western Cargo Conference, or Wesccon.
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. – The Federal Maritime Commission must eliminate the "perverse incentive" for ocean carriers and marine terminal operators to allow congestion as a way to make more money, FMC Chair Dan Maffei said, speaking Oct. 27 at the Pacific Coast Council's Western Cargo Conference, or Wesccon.
The Census Bureau is looking to eliminate one of two fields in the Automated Export System that collect redundant information on an export’s state of origin, said Omari Wooden, a Census official. Wooden, speaking Oct. 28 during the Pacific Coast Council's Western Cargo Conference, or Wesccon, said Census is hoping to either remove the state of origin data element in AES or not require the state to be reported in the address of the U.S. Principal Party in Interest.
Forwarders should think carefully before they file an export license application on behalf of a customer, a service that could make the forwarder liable in case of an export violation, said Tirrell McKnight, an official with the Bureau of Industry and Security's western regional office. McKnight suggested export application services should only be offered by forwarders who are confident in their export compliance, know their customers well and “want to take on that liability.”
Importer Cherish Your Health Food "failed to exercise reasonable care and competence" in submitting import documents related to its entries of fresh garlic from China, the U.S. said in an Oct. 30 complaint at the Court of International Trade. As a result of the company's "negligent violations" of customs laws, the U.S. is seeking over $254,000 related to a group of three entries, dubbed "Group A," it said (United States v. Cherish Your Health Food, CIT # 23-00230).
The U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 30 denied a petition for writ of certiorari regarding one question on Nebraska man Byungmin Chae's customs broker license exam. Chae took the test in April 2018 and subsequently took the result through multiple levels of administrative and judicial appeal before seeking Supreme Court review. He will remain one correct answer shy of the 75% threshold needed to pass the exam (Byungmin Chae v. Janet Yellen, U.S. Sup. Ct. # 23-200).
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. -- The use of artificial intelligence is not to eliminate customs broker jobs but to eliminate some of the "human error" that occurs, Scarbrough Group CEO Adam Hill said during a panel discussion Oct. 28. When it comes to AI, "you should let your imagination run wild, but don't let it run wild in a way that says 'how am I not going to be here,'" he said. "Let it run wild in such a way that says 'how can this make us better?'"
The U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 30 denied a petition for writ of certiorari regarding one question on Nebraska man Byungmin Chae's customs broker license exam. Chae took the test in April 2018 and subsequently took the result through multiple levels of administrative and judicial appeal before seeking Supreme Court review. He will remain one correct answer shy of the 75% threshold needed to pass the exam (Byungmin Chae v. Janet Yellen, U.S. Sup. Ct. # 23-200).