The Commerce Department on Aug. 15 published its quarterly update to its annual list of foreign government subsidies on imported articles of cheese subject to an in-quota rate of duty Jan. 1, 2023, through March 31, 2023. The agency again found that only Canada is providing subsidies, in the form of export assistance.
The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security completed a round of interagency review for a final rule that could revise the Section 232 steel and aluminum tariff exclusions process. BIS sent the rule to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs June 27 (see 2306280016), and the rule was sent back Aug. 10 with some changes.
The titanium sponge working group, convened after a Section 232 report on the product, as an alternative to imposing tariffs or tariff rate quotas, says that eliminating the 15% tariff on titanium sponge could benefit domestic titanium producers.