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."
The European Commission (EC) has issued Regulation EC 623/2006, effective May 1, 2006, in order to add eight products to the list of U.S.-originating products currently subject to 15% additional customs duties in response to the U.S.' disbursements under the repealed Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act (CDSOA, commonly known as the "Byrd Amendment") for fiscal year (FY) 2005.
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."
CBP has issued its weekly tariff rate quota (TRQ) commodity report as of May 1, 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. This 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 05/01/06, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued a notice announcing the opportunity to request administrative reviews by May 31, 2006 for individual producers or exporters subject to the following antidumping (AD) and/or countervailing (CV) duty orders:
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."
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued additional notices stating that effective April 27, 2006, ACS programming now allows the ABI filing of preference claims under the U.S. - Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR). As a result, non-ABI entries are no longer required and any quota entries (textiles or agricultural tariff-rate quotas) that had been held by the ports due to the unavailability of ABI can now be processed through the quota module. (See ITT's Online Archives or 04/27/06 news, 06042705 for earlier BP summary) (QBT-06-014 (textiles), QBT-06-527 (agricultural TRQs), dated 04/27/06, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/qbts/qbt2006/06_014.ctt/06_014.doc and http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/qbts/qbt2006/06_527.ctt/06_527.doc respectively.)
Updated as of April 27, 2006, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued another version of "ACE on the Road Event Scheduler," which replaces their April 18 version. The new version lists the following additional events (and removes all the April 2006 events from the scheduler):
According to a USTR press release, the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Rob Portman and his counterparts in Canada have announced that the two countries have agreed on the core terms of a softwood lumber accord. The press release states that the details of the agreement will be finalized over the next few months.
The International Trade Administration's (ITA's) Environmental Technologies Trade Advisory Committee (ETTAC) will hold a plenary meeting on May 12, 2006 in which it will discuss, among other things, the Chinese market for environmental technologies, updated negotiations on the World Trade Organization's (WTO's) environmental goods and services trade liberalization, etc. (FR Pub 04/26/06, available at http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20061800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2006/pdf/E6-6271.pdf)