Effective November 17, 2004, the International Trade Administration (ITA) is revoking the antidumping (AD) duty orders on solid urea from Belarus, Estonia, Lithuania, Romania, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan as the domestic interested parties have waived their right to participate in these sunset reviews and the ITA finds that no domestic interested party is participating in these sunset reviews.
On December 28, 2004, the International Trade Administration (ITA) announced that it is amending the final affirmative antidumping (AD) duty determination on wooden bedroom furniture from China (A-570-890).
1The ITA states that Tianjin Hanchem International Trading Co. (Hachem) was inadvertently identified separately as an exporter in the final determination with an AD rate of 217.94%. Instead, Hachem should have been included in the China entity and assigned the China-wide rate of 217.94%.
The International Trade Commission (ITC) has issued a general exclusion order in its section 337 investigation of certain purple protective gloves (Inv. No. 337-TA-500). The ITC has also announced that this investigation is terminated.
The Wall Street Journal reports that China will impose export duties from 0.2 yuan (2.4 U.S. cents) and 0.5 yuan per unit on textiles starting January 1, according to the International Business Daily, which is published by China's Ministry of Commerce. Subject items cover six categories of goods, including outerwear, dresses, pants, knitted and nonknitted blouses, sleepwear and underwear, according to the report. (WSJ, dated 12/27/04, www.wsj.com )
The International Trade Commission (ITC) has posted to its Web site the 2005 Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the U.S. (HTS). The ITC states that this version of the HTS includes changes resulting from the Australia Free Trade Agreement, which becomes effective on January 1, 2005, and many other changes that have occurred since the publication of the 2004 HTS, Supplement 1 in July 2004.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) frequently issues notices on antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) duty orders which Broker Power considers to be "minor" in importance as they concern actions that occur after an order is issued and neither announce nor cause any changes to an order's duty rates, scope, affected firms, or effective period.
On December 20, 2004, President Bush issued Proclamation 7857 to amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) to implement the U.S.-Australia Free Trade Agreement (FTA). This proclamation is published in the December 23, 2004 Federal Register.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued a notice announcing the allocation of the calendar year 2005 tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) for the importation of two types of worsted wool fabrics at the in-quota (low) TRQ duty rate to qualifying U.S. makers of men's and boys' worsted wool suits, suit-type jackets, and trousers. The ITA notes that while its notice contains the names of the allocation recipients, it is not publishing these recipients' allocation amounts because these amounts are based on applicant data that is generally considered business confidential. (ITA notice, FR Pub 12/14/04) available at http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/06jun20041800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2004/pdf/E4-3642.pdf.)
The Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA) has issued a notice requesting public comments by January 4, 2005 regarding a "commercial availability" petition it received under the U.S.-Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act (CBTPA) on behalf of Fishman & Tobin: