The Consumer Product Safety Commission is announcing the recalls of Graco®-branded drop side cribs and Simplicity full-size cribs with tubular metal mattress-support frames.
The Food and Drug Administration has posted revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
On April 26, 2010, APHIS updated the Manual for Agricultural Clearance. The manual provides CBP personnel working at airport and maritime locations with the guidelines, directions, and policy for clearing carriers and passengers/crew and controlling garbage and cargo. (Manual, updated 04/26/10, available at http://www.aphis.usda.gov/import_export/plants/manuals/ports/mac.shtml)
During their recent meeting, USTR Kirk and EU Commissioner Dalli discussed issues of food safety for U.S. and European consumers, citing the importance of science-based decisions on how food is inspected and traded, particularly when it comes to new innovations in the production and processing of agricultural and food products. (Notice, posted 04/26/10, available at http://www.ustr.gov/about-us/press-office/blog/2010/april/ambassador-kirk-and-eu-commissioner-dalli-meet-discuss-food-sa)
The Agricultural Marketing Service requests comments on its plans to review the minimum quality and handling standards for domestic and imported peanuts marketed in the U.S. to determine whether they should be continued without change, amended, or rescinded to minimize the impacts on small entities. Comments are due by June 28, 2010. (D/N AMS-FV-10-0030; FV10-996-610, FR Pub 04/28/10, available at http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/pdf/2010-9833.pdf)
The U.S. Department of Agriculture released to Congress a comprehensive report on agricultural transportation in the U.S. The report, Study of Rural Transportation Issues, and covers the four major modes of transportation commonly used by agriculture in the United States-truck, rail, barge, and ocean vessel. (News release, dated 04/27/10, available at http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome)
The U.S. held its first Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship for Muslim-majority countries on April 27, 2010. The Commerce Department's 2010 schedule for achieving Summit goals includes leading at least five trade missions and hosting as many as 27 reverse trade missions with partners from Muslim majority countries. The State and Commerce Departments are working to advance the legal frameworks in Muslim-majority countries for advancing entrepreneurship. Fact sheet available here. (Speech, dated 04/26/10, available at http://www.commerce.gov/NewsRoom/SecretarySpeeches/PROD01_009173)
The Census Bureau has posted to its Web site the April 2010 issue of its Automated Export System Newsletter. Highlights include:
The Directorate of Defense Trade Controls has issued Revision 2 to its Guidelines for Preparing Agreements, which incorporates additional revisions to its previously published Guidelines (Revision 1A, published in April 2009).
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has posted draft proposed rules that would designate certain children’s upper outerwear with drawstring violations and handheld hairdryers without immersion protection to be substantial product hazards under section 15 (j) of the Consumer Product Safety Act.