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 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 an ABI administrative message announcing that the Port of Charlotte was scheduled to open at 10:00 am on January 17, 2008. The delay in opening was due to an ice storm. (Adm: 08-005, dated 01/17/08, available at http://www.brokerpower.com/admmsgs/2008/08-0005.html)

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted PowerPoint presentations on Entry Summary, Accounts, and Revenue (ESAR) A1 and A2. The presentation on ESAR A1 highlights the functionality and benefits (additional/enhanced Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) account types, ACE becoming the system of record for certain data elements, etc.) that were delivered with its September 2007 deployment.

The International Trade Administration has issued a notice stating that it is postponing the preliminary countervailing duty determination on sodium nitrite from China by 65 days to no later than April 7, 2008.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ABI administrative message announcing that all Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) reports would be unavailablefrom 7 pm Monday, January 14, 2008 until approximately 7 am Tuesday, January 15, 2008 (eastern time). Preliminary Monthly Statements (PMS) were to be available on Tuesday morning January 15, 2008 and all data was to be current. CBP adds that data in other reports may not be current until 7:00 am on January 16, 2008. (Adm: 08-0001, dated 01/14/08, available at http://www.brokerpower.com/admmsgs/2008/08-0001.html)

The International Trade Administration has made a preliminary affirmative antidumping duty determination that circular welded carbon quality steel pipe (CWP) from China is being, or is likely to be, sold in the U.S. at less than fair value.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a memo on the Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements' (CITA's) recent determinations that certain fabrics cannot be supplied by the domestic industry in commercial quantities in a timely manner under the U.S.-Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA, also abbreviated as CAFTA-DR). As a result, such fabric is added to the list in Annex 3.25 of the DR-CAFTA in unrestricted quantities.

The International Trade Commission has issued a press release stating that it has determined to revoke the existing countervailing duty order on stainless steel bar from Italy, and the antidumping duty orders on stainless steel bar from France, Germany, Italy, Korea, and the United Kingdom.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of January 7, 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 01/07/08, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)