The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued a report entitled Transportation Security Administration (TSA): Oversight of Explosive Detection Systems Maintenance Contracts Can Be Strengthened. The full report (GAO-06-795, dated July 2006) is available at http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d06795.pdf and highlights of the report are available at http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d06795high.pdf.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has made a final affirmative countervailing (CV) duty determination that countervailable subsidies are being provided to producers and exporters of certain lined paper products from Indonesia.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has made a final affirmative antidumping (AD) duty determination that certain lined paper products from Indonesia are being, or are likely to be, sold in the U.S. at less than fair value.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) frequently issues notices on antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) 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 ITA also issues other notices which Broker Power considers to be "minor" in importance.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted the following to its Web site:
The International Trade Administration (ITA) frequently issues notices on antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) 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 ITA also issues other notices which Broker Power considers to be "minor" in importance.
CBP has issued messages on a number of antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) duty actions, many of which (marked by an * in the action column) were previously published in the Federal Register by the International Trade Administration (ITA) and summarized in International Trade Today.
On July 28, 2006, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 4, the Pension Protection Act of 2006. On August 3, 2006, the Senate passed, without amendment, the House-passed version of H.R. 4, clearing the bill for the President.
The International Trade Commission (ITC) has issued a press release stating that on August 3, 2006, a majority of the six Commissioners voted to revoke the existing antidumping (AD) duty orders on spherical plain bearings from France (A-427-801) and ball bearings from Singapore (A-559-801).
CBP has issued its weekly tariff rate quota (TRQ) commodity report as of August 7, 2006. This report includes TRQs on various products such as beef, tuna, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa powder, tobacco, certain CAFTA-DR, JFTA, MFTA, NAFTA, SFTA, UAFTA (AFTA) and UCFTA (Chile FTA) non-textile TRQs, etc. Each report also includes the AGOA, ATPDEA, CAFTA-DR, CBTPA, MFTA, NAFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA (Chile FTA) tariff preference levels (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 08/07/06, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)