The International Trade Administration has initiated antidumping duty investigations to determine whether imports of citric acid and certain citrate salts from China and Canada are being, or are likely to be, sold in the U.S. at less than fair value, and a countervailing duty investigation to determine whether manufacturers, producers, or exporters of subject merchandise in China receive countervailable subsidies.
The International Trade Administration has made preliminary affirmative antidumping duty determinations that lightweight thermal paper (LWTP) from China and Germany is being, or is likely to be, sold in the U.S. at less than fair value.
The International Trade Administration and the International Trade Commission have each issued a notice initiating an automatic five-year Sunset Review on the above-listed antidumping duty order.
The International Trade Administration has issued a notice announcing the opportunity for interested parties to request administrative reviews by May 31, 20081 for the following antidumping and/or countervailing duty orders:
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.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ABI and Truck Manifest CSMS message announcing that the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Certification Environment will be availablefrom 8:00 a.m. EDT on May 27, 2008 through 8:00 a.m. EDT on June 3, 2008. The previously announced outage for this period has been cancelled; CBP will notify the trade when it is rescheduled. (See ITT's Online Archives or 05/01/08 news, 08050135 1, for BP summary announcing that the ACE Certification Environment would be unavailable during this time period.)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an updated Excel workbook containing historical and the 2008 fill rate for the tariff rate quota for certain tuna/skipjack. According to CBP, the 2008 TRQ filled on January 2, 2008. (See ITT's Online Archives or 01/10/08 news, (Ref 08011035) 1, for earlier BP summary on the January 2, 2008 TRQ filling closure.)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ABI CSMS message announcing that it will be conducting two ACE ABI CATAIR Technical Seminars for trade software developers only.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a CSMS message stating that the requirements statements that are being circulated throughout the trade community are not the M2.1 Implementation Guidelines (ACE M2.1 AIR CAMIR Requirements/ACE M2.1 Implementation Guidelines). CBP states that these requirements sets are only the first high level set of documentation to be developed by CBP and are not intended to be used for programming,. According to CBP, these requirements were not intended for distribution. (CSMS 08-000071, dated 05/02/08, available at http://apps.cbp.gov/csms/viewmssg.asp?Recid=17079&page=&srch_argv=08-000071&srchtype=all&btype=&sortby=&sby=.)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an updated version of its "ACE on the Road" event schedule, which includes the following: