The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notice for May 15:
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notice for May 14:
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notice for May 7:
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notice for May 6:
The Commerce Department seeks public comments on any subsidies, including stumpage, paid by certain countries that exported softwood lumber to the U.S. between July 1 and Dec. 31, 2019. Comments are due June 5. The Softwood Lumber Act of 2008 requires Commerce to submit a report every 180 days on any subsidy provided by nations exporting softwood lumber or softwood products to the U.S., including subsidies for stumpage. Commerce is seeking input on subsidies paid by countries whose exports composed at least 1 percent of total U.S. softwood imports by quantity, as classified under tariff schedule subheadings 4407.10.01, 4407.11.00, 4407.12.00, 4407.19.05, 4407.19.06 and 4407.19.10, the agency said. International Trade Commission Tariff and Trade DataWeb information indicates that four countries -- Brazil, Canada, Germany and Sweden -- exported that much softwood lumber to the U.S. during that six-month period.
The Commerce Department recently posted to its website a list of tariff subheadings that would be subject to its proposed Aluminum Import Monitoring and Analysis System. In the proposed rule, issued April 29 (see 2004280041), Commerce mentioned an “Annex II” listing subject aluminum products, but did not include the annex in the proposal. “If implemented, the Proposed rule would cover basic aluminum products under the following HTS codes: 7601, 7604, 7605, 7606, 7607, 7608, 7609, 7616.99.51.60, and 7616.99.51.70,” Commerce said on its website.
The Commerce Department issued its quarterly update to its annual list of foreign government subsidies on articles of cheese subject to an in-quota rate of duty that were imported during the period Oct. 1, 2019, through Dec. 31, 2019. The agency again found that only Canada is providing subsidies, in the form of export assistance.
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notice for April 28:
The Commerce Department recently released its report on the domestic production and admissibility of goods subject to duty reduction and suspension requests under the Miscellaneous Tariff Bill. Appendix A of the report includes, for each request, whether there is domestic production of the good in question and whether domestic industry objects to the request. Appendix B lists CBP’s comments on any technical changes to article descriptions that may be necessary to make the requested duty reductions or suspensions administrable. The International Trade Commission will consider the report among other factors, and is due to send its preliminary report to Congress by mid-June.
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notice for April 24: