The International Trade Commission has posted to its Web site an updated list of current antidumping and countervailing duty orders.
On March 5, 2008, a Commerce Department Assistant Secretary testified before the Senate on the effect of a Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decision, Eurodif, S.A., et al. v. U.S., on the recent amendment to the U.S.-Russia antidumping suspension agreement on low-enriched uranium (LEU).
The International Trade Administration has amended the final resultsof its countervailing duty administrative review of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) film, sheet, and strip from India for the period of January 1, 2005 through December 31, 2005.
The following have been issued by CBP:
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 a news release announcing that the next phase of the CBP.gov Web site upgrade is to be launched April 4, 2008 and will feature new second-tier feature pages providing better display of information on CBP's major missions of border security, trade and travel, as well as CBP news and career information. This upgrade also will introduce a streamlined menu bar and footers, as well as more photos and graphics.
The International Trade Administration has issued its final results of the antidumping duty administrative review of certain cut-to-length carbon-quality steel plate products from Korea for the period of February 1, 2006 through January 31, 2007.
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 its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of March 24, 2008. 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. (CBP's weekly TRQ/TPL commodity report, dated 03/24/08, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)
The following Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and Court of International Trade cases on international trade issues were dated/decided during March 3 - March 19, 2008: