Earlier in June, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) and Yumei Foods USA, Inc., announced a recall of over 9,000 pounds of processed Siluriformes imported from the People’s Republic of China. China is eligible to import raw...
The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has begun to apply Import Alert 99-29, "Detention Without Physical Examination of All Vegetable Protein Products From China for Animal or Human Food Use Due to the Presence of Melamine and/or Melamine Analogs," to imported...
In 2012 FDAImports represented a Chinese primary vegetable protein processor to obtain the first Green Ticket from the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Import Alert (IA) #99-29. Since then, multiple other Chinese vegetable protein processors have obtained a Green...
Update 08/15/19The USTR has confirmed, as we expected, that the additional 10% will be applied based on entry date for both List 4A and 4B. Original Post 08/14/19On Tuesday, August 13th the United States Trade Representative (USTR) announced additional details...
On Thursday, August 1st President Trump announced that on September 1, 2019, he will impose a 10% import tariff on $300 billion worth of Chinese goods (which may potentially rise to 25% in the future). These goods, known commonly as List 4, will include most products...
President Trump announced on Saturday that proposed new tariffs on Chinese imports (aka List 4 goods) will be delayed as trade talks resume. Proposed goods on List 4 were to include most products not already covered by previous tariffs. The U.S. Trade Representative...
The U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) just announced that applications for exclusion from Section 301 List 3 tariffs will be accepted starting at noon on June 30, 2019. The last day to submit exclusion applications will be September 30, 2019. Exclusions that are...
Much of the talk in the United States is about tariffs that are being imposed on Chinese imports by the U.S. government. However, the Chinese government has been busy with its own set of tariffs on U.S.-origin products. Over the past year, China has imposed tariffs on...
In early May, the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) increased tariffs to 25% for Chinese products covered by List 3 of the Section 301 investigation. Now that the tariff rate has risen to 25%, the USTR announced that it will be setting up a process to apply for List...
The U.S. Trade Representative is proposing additional tariffs of up to 25 percent on Chinese products covering 3,805 full and partial tariff subheadings with an approximate annual trade value of $300 billion. The proposed list covers essentially all products not...
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