Effective March 14, 2006, the International Trade Administration (ITA) is revoking the antidumping (AD) duty orders on grain-oriented electrical steel from Italy and Japan and the countervailing (CV) duty order on grain-oriented electrical steel from Italy because the ITA found that the domestic interested parties did not participate in the sunset reviews on these three orders.

Effective June 19, 2005, August 18, 2005, and August 14, 2005, the International Trade Administration (ITA) is revoking the antidumping (AD) duty order on structural steel beams (beams) from Japan, and revoking the AD duty order and the countervailing (CV) duty order on structural steel beams from Korea, respectively.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted a summary of changes to the Automated Export System (AES) Trade Interface Requirements (AESTIR) on its Web site, indicating that Version 1.0 was changed on March 16, 2006 and March 22, 2006 as follows:

The International Trade Commission (ITC) has issued a press release stating that on March 23, 2006, the six Commissioners voted unanimously to revoke the existing antidumping (AD) duty order on synthetic indigo from China (A-570-856).

The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued the final results of its countervailing (CV) duty administrative review of DRAMS from Korea for the period April 7, 2003, through December 31, 2003.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site under "What's New" an Attachment A entitled "Factories Comprising Qualifying Industrial Zones in Egypt Designated by U.S. Federal Register Notice of December 29, 2004." This list was Attachment A to a February 10, 2005 CBP memo, and names the industrial cities and the companies in each of the three QIZs. The list also contains a few "individual factories" for which the list states information is to be provided. (See ITT's Online Archives or 06/03/05 news, 05060315 for BP summary encompassing the February 10, 2005 CBP Memo.)Attachment A List available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/import/international_agreements/free_trade/free_trade_area/israel_attachment.ctt/israel_attachment.doc

The International Trade Administration (ITA) has made a preliminary affirmative antidumping (AD) duty determination that certain lined paper products (CLPP) from Indonesia are being, or are likely to be, sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. The period of investigation is July 1, 2004 through June 30, 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."

The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued a notice announcing that it is aligning the final determination in the countervailing (CV) duty investigations with the final determinations in the antidumping (AD) duty investigations, of certain lined paper products from India and Indonesia.

CBP has added three additional answers to question cards submitted at the CBP Trade Symposium that was held November 2-4, 2005 in Washington D.C. Answers have been added to: