The International Trade Administration has initiated an antidumping duty investigation to determine whether imports of circular welded austenitic stainless pressure pipe (CWASPP) 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 preliminary affirmative countervailing duty determination that countervailable subsidies are being provided to producers and exporters of raw flexible magnets from China.

The International Trade Administration has published its quarterly list of recently completed antidumping and countervailing duty scope rulings and anticircumvention determinations; terminated scope and anticircumvention inquiries; and pending scope inquiries and anticircumvention rulings.

For some ACE Truck manifest EDI data submitted between approximately 12:25 PM and 1:45 PM EST on February 21, 2008, U.S. Customs and Border Protection states that data was successfully processed and available for truck processing at the border, but no EDI response message was generated. CBP is working to generate the missing response messages.

The International Trade Administration has made a preliminary affirmative antidumping duty determination that certain new pneumatic off-the-road tires (OTR tires) from China are being, or are likely to be, sold in the U.S. at less than fair value.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted to its Unified Business Resumption Messaging (UBRM) Web page a message announcing that the Brunswick, GA Port of Entry has reopened for departing/arriving commercial vessels. According to CBP, the incident (see below) has been resolved an the main channel is open.

The following were posted to CBP's Web site:

The following Court of International Trade cases on international trade issues were decided during January 31 - February 5, 2008:

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted its agenda for the 2008 Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism Supply Chain Security Training Seminar for C-TPAT members that will be held February 26th through February 29th in New Orleans, Louisiana.

The International Trade Administration frequently issues notices on antidumping and countervailing duty orders which Broker Power considers to be "minor" in importance as they concern actions that occur after an order is issued and neither announce nor cause any changes to an order's duty rates, scope, affected firms, or effective period.