USTR Says Comment Periods May Be Extended Due to Regulations.gov Outage
Regulations.gov, the government website where businesses can see if other companies have objected to their tariff exclusion requests, went down Jan. 16. It's not clear how long it will take workers -- who have been affected by the partial federal…
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government shutdown -- to get the issues resolved and get the site back online. A spokeswoman for the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative said the agency continues to work on exclusion requests on items on the first two tranches of the Section 301 tariffs list, and that "the time period to comment will be extended as applicable" because of the outage.