President Donald Trump last week announced (here) his intent to nominate Mira Ricardel to serve as under secretary of commerce for export administration, the lead position at the Bureau of Industry and Security. Ricardel currently serves as special assistant to the president and associate director for presidential personnel. From 2006 to 2015, Ricardel held senior leadership positions in Boeing’s Defense Space and Security group, most recently vice president for international business development, network and space systems, a role in which she led the business unit’s marketing and growth strategies for international markets.
The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notice for April 3:
The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notice for March 31:
The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notice for March 30:
The Bureau of Industry and Security removed 12 entries from and added one entry to the Entity List, the agency said (here and here). BIS is removing four entities under the destination of Germany, two entities under China, two entities under the United Arab Emirates, one entity under Hong Kong, one entity under India, one entity under Singapore, and one entity under Switzerland. BIS is also adding one entity under China designations. BIS removed ZTE Corporation and ZTE Kangxun Telecommunications Ltd. from the Entity List after ZTE pleaded guilty earlier this month to one count each of conspiring the violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act through illegally shipping U.S.-origin items to Iran, as well as obstruction of justice and making a material false statement (see 1703230025), ending more than a year of sanctions on the company (see 1603070001). According to its announcement, BIS also added one Chinese individual to the Entity List, Shi Lirong, who was ZTE's CEO when company documents that had detailed the firm's illicit export plan were signed. Those documents indicated that ZTE organized a scheme to establish shell companies to Iran in violation of U.S. export control laws, BIS said.
BWA and Dillard's filed a request on March 20 with the Commerce Department’s Office of Textiles and Apparel to add a fabric to the short supply list under the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (here). The company says it cannot find in commercial quantities a woven modal-polyester print fabric classifiable in tariff schedule subheadings 5516.14 and 5516.24. Under short supply provisions of CAFTA-DR, fibers, yarns and fabrics that are not available in commercial quantities from suppliers in the U.S. may be placed on the short supply list in Annex 3.25. A textile or apparel good imported into the U.S. containing fibers, yarns or fabrics that are included on the list in Annex 3.25 is treated as if it is an originating good, regardless of the actual origin of those inputs.
The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notice for March 23:
The Commerce Department is accepting comments until April 7 on construction and maintenance of U.S. pipelines to help develop a plan to domestically source materials for the construction, retrofitting, repair and expansion of pipelines in the U.S. in line with President Donald Trump’s Jan. 24 memorandum (see 1701270004), Commerce said (here). Commerce is collecting information in order to better understand current pipeline construction technology and requirements, potential advances in technology, the domestic and foreign supply chain for pipeline materials, and any other information that commenters think is relevant to development of the domestic sourcing plan, Commerce said. Responses will inform a plan Commerce is developing for the domestic sourcing of materials for U.S. pipelines.
The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notice for March 14:
The Commerce Department published notice in the March 13 Federal Register on the following AD/CV duty proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CV duty rates, scope, affected firms or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):