The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has issued a notice announcing that pursuant to a request of the European Communities, the Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) of the World Trade Organization has established a compliance panel concerning the U.S. implementation of a 2005 WTO panel finding that the following were inconsistent with U.S. WTO obligations:

The International Trade Administration has issued a notice stating that it is postponing the preliminary antidumping duty determination on light-walled rectangular pipe and tube from China by 50 days to January 23, 2008.

The International Trade Commission has issued a press release on its final negative antidumping and countervailing duty injury determinations for coated free sheet (CFS) paper from China, Indonesia, and Korea alleged to be subsidized and sold in the U.S. at less than fair value.

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 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 International Trade Commission has issued a press release on its preliminary negative antidumping duty injury determination for lightweight thermal paper from Korea alleged to be sold in the U.S. at less than fair value.

The International Trade Administration has issued a notice stating that it is postponing the preliminary antidumping duty determination on circular welded carbon quality steel pipe from China by 50 days to January 3, 2008.

The International Trade Administration has issued a notice announcing that it is revoking the antidumping duty orders on certain hot-rolled carbon steel flat products from Argentina, Kazakhstan, Romania and South Africa and the countervailing duty orders for Argentina and South Africa, as the International Trade Commission has determined that revocation of these AD and CV duty orders would not be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of material injury to an industry in the U.S. within a reasonably foreseeable time.

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.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ABI administrative message announcing that a fix has gone into the Automated Commercial System (ACS) to allow the retransmission of rejected debit authorizations which occurred when some preliminary periodic monthly statements were sent out prematurely. CBP states that the fix was completed on November 13, 2007 and debit authorizations can now be retransmitted, as needed, for PMS. (See ITT's Online Archives or 11/14/07 news, 07111440 1, for BP summary of ABI message announcing the problem.) (Adm: 07-0256, dated 11/14/07, available at http://www.brokerpower.com/cgi-bin/adminsearch/admmsg.view.pl?article=2007/2007-0256.ADM.)