European Port Infrastructure and Security Trade Mission to Germany, Belgium and Italy, May 4–8, 2009

Drawbridge Operating Regulations:
Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, Houma, LA

RULES
Safety and Security Zones:
New York Marine Inspection Zone and Captain of the Port Zone

RULES
Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) Implementation in the Maritime Sector:
Hazardous Materials Endorsement for a Commercial Driver's License

Antidumping:
Polyethylene Retail Carrier Bags from the People's Republic of China

Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.:
Dredged Material Management Plan for the Port of New York and New Jersey

Pollution Prevention Equipment; Correction

Commercial Service Trade Mission to Colombia

Economic Impact Policy

Implementation of Revised Lacey Act Provisions

Antidumping:

• Lined paper products from India.
• Stainless steel bar from Brazil.
• Wooden bedroom furniture from China.
• Frozen fish fillets from Vietnam.

Notices:

• Use of a multi-stage discontinued cash flow model in determining the railroad industry's cost of capital.

Notices:

• Cancellation of customs broker license due to death of the license holder.
• Cancellation of customs broker licenses.

Notices:

• Public hearing.

Antidumping:

• Shrimp from Thailand.
• Chlorinated isocyanurates from China.

Investigation:

• 1-hydroxyethylidene-1, 1-diphosphonic acid (HEDP) from China and India.

Notices:

• Simplified standards for rail rate cases -- taxes in revenue shortfall allocation method.

Notices:

• Agreements filed.

Antidumping:

• Hand trucks from China.
• Oil country tubular goods, other than drill pipe, from Korea.

Investigation:

• Polyvinyl alcohol from China, Japan and Korea.

Notices:

• Determination of trade surplus in certain sugar goods of Peru.

Antidumping:

• Frozen fish fillets from Vietnam.
• Circular welded austenitic stainless pressure pipe from China.
• Frozen warmwater shrimp from Vietnam.
• Tow behind lawn groomers from China.
• Wooden bedroom furniture from China.

Countervailing duties:

• Circular welded austenitic stainless pressure pipe from China.
• Stainless steel plate in coils from Belgium.
• Pasta from Turkey.

Notices:

• North American Free-Trade Agreement, Article 1904 NAFTA panel reviews; request for panel review.

Investigation:

• Advice concerning possible modifications to the U.S. Generalized System of Preferences, 2008 review of competitive need limit waivers.

Antidumping:

• Activated carbon from China.
• Orange juice from Brazil.

Countervailing duty:

• Pasta from Italy.

Investigations:

• Laminated floor panels.

Request for comments and notice of public hearing:

• Proposed trans-Pacific partnership Free Trade Agreement with Singapore, Chile, New Zealand, et al.

U.S.-Israel Free Trade Area Implementation Act:

• Designation of qualifying industrial zones.

Notices:

• Agreements filed.
• Ocean transportation intermediary license applicants.

Countervailing duties:

• Circular welded carbon quality steel line pipe from China.

Investigations:

• Electronic devices, including handheld wireless communications devices.
• GPS devices and products containing same.

2009 Special 301 review:

• Identification of countries under Section 182 of the Trade Act of 1974; request for public comment.

Determination regarding waiver of discriminatory purchasing requirements:

• Goods and services covered by Chapter 9 of the U.S.-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement.

WTO dispute settlement proceedings:

• European communities ban on imports of U.S. beef and beef products.

Antidumping:

• Tapered roller bearings, finished and unfinished, from China.

Investigations:

• General exclusion order; hydraulic excavators and components.

Antidumping:

• Circular welded carbon steel pipes and tubes from Taiwan.
• Folding metal tables and chairs from China.
• Stainless steel plate in coils from Belgium.

Imports of certain apparel articles:

• Interim procedures for the implementation of the Earned Import Allowance Program established under the Andean Trade Preference Act of 2008.

Generalized System of Preferences:

• Acceptance of competitive need limitation waiver and further review of country practice petitions (2008 annual review).

Proposed rules:

• Importation, interstate movement and release into the environment of certain genetically engineered organisms.

Rules:

• Establishing U.S. ports of entry in the commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and implementing the Guam-CNMI visa waiver program.
• Import restrictions imposed on certain archeological material from China.
• Prohibitions and conditions for importation of Burmese and non-Burmese covered articles of jaeite, rubies, etc.

Notices:

• Ocean transportation intermediary licenses; reissuances.
• Ocean transportation intermediary licenses; revocations.

Antidumping:

• Polyethylene retail carrier bags from Thailand.
• Corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products from Korea.

Investigations:

• Frozen fish fillets from Vietnam.

Notices:

• Ocean transportation intermediary license applicants.

Antidumping:

• Carbon steel butt-weld pipe fittings from Thailand.
• Frozen fish fillets from Vietnam.
• Small diameter graphite electrodes from China.
• Wooden bedroom furniture from China.

Investigation:

• Cold cathode fluorescent lamp inverter circuits, et al.

Notices:

• Determination of eligibility for retroactive duty treatment under the Dominican Republic-Central America-U.S. Free-Trade Agreement.

Notices:

• Agreement filed.

Investigations:

• Circular welded carbon quality steel line pipe from China.
• Refined brown aluminum oxide from China.

Public hearings:

• U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.

Antidumping:

• Pasta from Italy.
• Stainless steel butt-weld pipe fittings from Taiwan.

Notices:

• Enhanced bonding requirement for certain shrimp importers.
• Quarterly IRS interest rates used in calculating interest on overdue accounts and refunds on customs duties.

Notices:

• Determination under the Textile and Apparel Commercial Availability Provision of the Dominican Republic-Central America-U.S. Free Trade Agreement.

Antidumping:

• Barium carbonate from China.
• Carbazole violet pigment 23 from China.
• Granular polytetrafluoroethylene resin from Italy.
• Wooden bedroom furniture from China.

Antidumping:

• Ball Bearings and Parts Thereof from France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom
  
• Honey from the Peoples’s Repubic of China
  
• Persulfates from the People’s Republic of China
  

Proposed Rules: Importation of Hass Avocados from Peru

Antidumping:

• Cut-to-length carbon steel plate from China.

Proposed rules:

• Rail transportation contracts (Under 49 U.S.C. 10709).

Abandonment exemptions:

• Norfolk Southern Railway Co.; Henry County, Va.

Determination regarding waiver of discriminatory purchasing requirements with respect to goods and services:

• Covered by Chapter 9 of the Dominican Republic-Central America-U.S. Free Trade Agreement for Costa Rica.

2008 Rates for Pilotage on the Great Lakes

Petitions:

• Olympus Growth Fund III LP and Olympus Executive Fund LP.

Antidumping:

• Steel concrete reinforcing bars from Turkey; revocation.
• Floor-standing metal-top ironing tables and parts from China.

Proposed rules:

• Class 1 railroad accounting and financial reporting transportation of hazardous materials.

U.S.-Oman Free Trade Agreement:

• Determination regarding waiver of discriminatory purchasing requirements with respect to goods and services covered by Chapter 9.

Rules:

• Importation of cattle from Mexico; addition of Port of San Luis, Ariz.

Investigation:

• Use of the "First-Sale Rule" for Customs valuation of U.S. imports.

Notices:

• Revocation of customs broker license.