The International Trade Commission determined that a U.S. industry is not materially injured or threatened with material injury by reason of imports of certain steel wheels from China that the International Trade Administration has determined are subsidized and sold in the U.S. at less than fair value.
Brian Feito
Brian Feito is Managing Editor of International Trade Today, Export Compliance Daily and Trade Law Daily. A licensed customs broker who spent time at the Department of Commerce calculating antidumping and countervailing duties, Brian covers a wide range of subjects including customs and trade-facing product regulation, the courts, antidumping and countervailing duties and Mexico and the European Union. Brian is a graduate of the University of Florida and George Mason University. He joined the staff of Warren Communications News in 2012.
The chair of the World Trade Organization’s sub-committee on least developed countries, Ambassador Steffen Smidt of Denmark, said nine informal consultations were held since the last meeting in January 2012. Members discussed the ways to “further strengthen, streamline and operationalize” current guidelines on the process for the poorest countries to become a member of WTO.
The Department of Agriculture announced a fiscal year 2012 raw sugar tariff-rate quota increase of 420,000 short tons raw value (SRTV) (reassigned from FY 2012 surplus allocations from the cane sugar domestic marketing allotment), effective April 19, 2012.
On April 16 and 17, 2012, the Foreign Agricultural Service issued the following GAIN reports:
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Web site as of April 16, 2012, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching on the listed CBP message number at http://addcvd.cbp.gov.
On April 17, 2012, the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
From April 11 to April 13, 2012, the Foreign Agriculture Service issued the following GAIN reports:
The International Trade Commission voted to institute an investigation of certain food waste disposers and components and packaging thereof (337-TA-838). The products at issue in this investigation are undersink-mounted food waste disposers.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service issued a final rule, effective May 17, 2012, amending the fruits and vegetables regulations to allow the import into the continental U.S. of pomegranates from Chile, subject to a systems approach.
The Bureau of Industry and Security is amending its Temporary Denial Order (TDO) denying the export privileges of Mahan Airways; Zarand Aviation; Gatewick LLC; Pejman Mahmood Kosarayanifard; Mahmoud Amini; Kerman Aviation, Sirjanco Trading; and Ali Eslamian to add the following additional respondents in order to prevent evasion of the TDO: Mahan Air General Trading LLC of the UAE; Skyco (UK) Ltd. of the UK; and Equipco (UK) Ltd. of the UK. The order is currently in effect until August 13, 2012, unless renewed.