The Foreign Agriculture Service issued the following GAIN reports:
The Office of Textiles and Apparel has posted to its website monthly reports containing official March 2010 trade data from the Census Department for U.S. imports and exports of textiles and apparel.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with Family Dollar Stores Inc., of Charlotte, NC, is announcing the voluntary recall of 1.8 million toy dart gun sets, due to an aspiration hazard.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety has launched its Pre-Employment Screening Program (PSP), which allows commercial motor carrier companies to electronically access driver inspection and crash records as a part of the hiring process.
The International Trade Commission has instituted a section 337 patent-based investigation of certain electronic paper towel dispensing devices and components thereof, pursuant to a complaint (Inv. No. 337-TA-718).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ADD/CVD message which contains adjusted antidumping duty rates under the International Trade Administration's preliminary affirmative AD duty determination on certain seamless carbon and alloy steel standard, line, and pressure pipe from China (A-570-956).
The International Trade Administration has issued a fact sheet announcing its affirmative final determinations in the antidumping and countervailing duty investigations of prestressed concrete steel wire strand (PC strand) from China (A-570-945 and C-570-946).
The International Trade Commission has launched two investigations to assess the probable economic effect of providing duty-free treatment for imports of certain environmental goods, and to examine U.S. international trade in such products and the competitive conditions facing U.S. industries.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has added a sentence to its announcement that a metric unit of measure and quantity is required for the Lacey Act declaration as of May 1, 2010. The new sentence states that in response to industry concerns, APHIS will implement a grace period of two months (ending July 1, 2010), to allow industry to make the needed changes to declaration procedures. (Notice, posted 05/17/10, available at http://www.aphis.usda.gov/plant_health/lacey_act/downloads/ClarificationQuantityandUnitofMeasure.pdf)
Various U.S. government agencies are seeking comments on the following information collections for which they have requested or intend to request Office of Management and Budget approval or extension of approval (see notices for specific details):