In the United States the following events have taken place under the several PGA during the month of September 2016.
| Agencies | Summary |
| Federal Register | Application to export electric energy: Rassini Energy Project, LLC (Applicant or REP) has applied for authority to transmit electric energy from the U.S. to Mexico pursuant to section 202(e) of the Federal Power Act. See Details |
| Application and approval to manipulate, examine, sample or transfer goods: U.S. Customs and Border Protection will be submitting the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act: Application and Approval to Manipulate, Examine, Sample or Transfer Goods (Form 3499). See Details |
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| Addition of certain entities to the entity list: The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) amends the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) by adding eighty-one entities under eighty-six entries to the Entity List. BIS is taking this action to ensure the efficacy of existing sanctions on the Russian Federation (Russia) for violating international law and fueling the conflict in eastern Ukraine. See Details |
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| FSIS | Revision of FSIS Directive 9500.8: This directive is about importation of products for other than commercial purposes. It is being revised to update instructions to the Office of Field Operations (OFO), Recall Management and Technical Analysis Division (RMTAD) and the Office of Investigation, Enforcement and Audit (OIEA), Compliance and Investigations Division (CID), on the actions to take when monitoring and verifying the requirements for meat (including Siluriformes), poultry, and egg products imported into the United States (U.S.) for other than commercial purposes including personal consumption, laboratory examination, research, evaluative testing, or trade show exhibition, and products entering the U.S. destined for foreign governmental commissaries located in the U.S. See Details |
| CBP | CBP hosts 5th annual CTAC OpsExpo to discuss import safety: With the end of the fiscal year, members of the Commercial Targeting and Analysis Center, better known as CTAC, gathered in Washington, D.C., to discuss their plans for the future. The 11-partner government agencies that have joined forces to focus on import safety met at the 5th annual OpsExpo operational planning meeting hosted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. See Details |
| ITC | USITC releases shifts in U.S. Merchandise Trade 2015: Shifts in U.S. Merchandise Trade 2015 is now available on the U.S. International Trade Commission Internet site. A web-based product, 2015 Trade Shifts provides interactive features, including graphics that allow users to view and refine, as they choose, the official government data presented. See Details |
