The Bureau of Transportation Statistics reports that trade using surface transportation between the U.S., and Canada/Mexico was 37% higher in March 2010 than in March 2009, reaching $69.9 billion. However, freight value in March 2010 still remained 1.2 percent less than the value in March 2008, two years earlier.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with Maytag Corporation, have announced a voluntary recall of 1.7 million Maytag®, Amana®, Jenn-Air®, Admiral®, Magic Chef®, Performa by Maytag® and Crosley® brand dishwashers with plastic tubs and certain serial numbers due to a fire hazard.

The Food Safety and Inspection Service has issued updated version of its list of Brazil (May 28, 2010) establishments eligible to export meat and poultry to the U.S.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology posts drafts and changes to foreign technical regulations for manufactured products which may be considered technical barriers to trade and are therefore required to be reported to the World Trade Organization, which distributes the information to WTO Member countries.

On June 1, 2010, the President transmitted a report to Congress, under section 804(a) of the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act, which transmits his designations of the following five foreign individuals as appropriate for sanctions under the Kingpin Act and reports his direction of sanctions against them under the Act: Haji Agha Jan Alizai (Afghanistan), Haji Bando (Afghanistan), Ousmane Conte (Guinea), Sergio Enrique Villarreal Barragan (Mexico), and Mohamed Bachir Suleman (Mozambique).

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 International Trade Administration has issued a notice announcing the opportunity for interested parties to request administrative reviews by June 30, 2010 for the following antidumping duty orders and suspension agreement.

The Directorate of Defense Trade Controls has published the unclassified version of its recommendations to the State Department for 2010-2012 Defense Trade Advisory Group (DTAG) membership.

On May 31, 2010, APHIS updated its Cut Flowers and Greenery Import Manual. The manual provides the background, procedures, and reference tables for regulating the fresh, cut portion of the plant when it is imported for decoration or ornamentation, and for protecting plants that are threatened with extinction due to trade in those plants or their derivatives.