U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ABI administrative message announcing that the New Orleans client representative branch office will be closed on Tuesday, February 5, 2008 due to the observance of the local Mardi Gras holiday. CBP states that the office will reopen on Wednesday, February 6, 2008.
The International Trade Administration and the International Trade Commission have each issued notices initiating automatic five-year Sunset Reviews on the above-listed antidumping duty orders.
The International Trade Administration has issued a notice announcing the opportunity to request administrative reviews by February 29, 2008 for interested parties subject to the following antidumping and/or countervailing duty orders:
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.
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection administrative messages, the antidumping and countervailing duty investigations of coated free sheet paper from Indonesia have been terminated, pursuant to the International Trade Commission's final negative injury determinations.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of January 28, 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 01/28/08, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)
The antidumping and countervailing messages U.S. Customs Border and Protection 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.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a notice stating that it will soon begin upgrading its www.cbp.gov Web site. The first change will be a new homepage that will have a streamlined layout, among other features. Afterwards, over the next few months, the entire site will be modernized and streamlined, and will include Smart Links on top of many search results, to drive users to the most appropriate pages, and clearer presentation of important events or changes in the regulations, etc.
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.
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has issued an electronic notice stating that the U.S. has requested a second arbitration under the 2006 U.S.-Canada Softwood Lumber Agreement (SLA 2006), challenging Quebec and Ontario's provincial subsidy programs that appear to violate the terms of the SLA 2006.