The International Trade Administration has made a preliminary affirmative antidumping duty determination that certain tow behind lawn groomers and certain parts thereof from China are being, or are likely to be, sold in the U.S. at less than fair value.
The International Trade Administration has made a final affirmative antidumping duty determination that circular welded austenitic stainless pressure pipe (CWASPP) from China is being, or is likely to be, sold in the U.S. at less than fair value.
The International Trade Administration has made a final affirmative countervailing duty determination that countervailable subsidies are being provided to producers and exporters of circular welded austenitic stainless pressure pipe (CWASPP) from China.
CBP has posted to its Web site an additional Importer Security Filing (ISF) transaction set. CBP has also issued a CSMS message announcing changes to a record within another ISF transaction set.
The antidumping and countervailing messages CBP issues on behalf of the International Trade Administration are now only available on CBP's Web site at http://addcvd.cbp.gov. AD and CV ABI administrative messages are no longer issued.
CBP has issued its weekly tariff rate quota (TRQ) and tariff preference level (TPL) commodity report as of January 12, 2009. This report includes TRQs on various products such as beef, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa products, tobacco, certain BFTA, DR-CAFTA, Israel FTA, JFTA, MFTA, SFTA, UAFTA (AFTA) and UCFTA (Chile FTA) non-textile TRQs, etc. Each report also includes the AGOA, ATPDEA, BFTA, DR-CAFTA, CBTPA, Haitian HOPE, MFTA, NAFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA TPLs and TRQs for qualifying apparel and/or other textile articles, the TRQs on worsted wool fabrics, etc. (Note that CBP also recently posted a January 8, 2009 version of this report.) (Weekly commodity report available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/trade/trade_programs/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a notice proposing to eliminate the enhanced "high value" continuous bond applied to certain shrimp imports1 in response to a recent World Trade Organization ruling which found CBP's application of this type of bond to shrimp from Thailand and India inconsistent with U.S. WTO obligations.
The International Trade Administration frequently issues notices on antidumping and countervailing duty orders, investigations, etc. which Broker Power considers to be "minor" in importance as they concern actions that occur after an order is issued, neither announce nor cause any changes to an order's duty rates, scope, affected firms, or effective period, etc.
The World Trade Organization frequently issues notices involving the U.S. The following are short summaries of such WTO issues for December 2008:
The International Trade Administration frequently issues notices on antidumping and countervailing duty orders, investigations, etc. which Broker Power considers to be "minor" in importance as they concern actions that occur after an order is issued, neither announce nor cause any changes to an order's duty rates, scope, affected firms, or effective period, etc.