U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued an administrative message announcing that port 2770, DHL (Los Angeles), has been removed from the list of approved remote location filing (RLF) ports. RLF filers may transmit entries to Port 2704 or 2720. (Adm: 06-0200, dated 02/08/06, available at http://www.brokerpower.com/cgi-bin/adminsearch/admmsg.view.pl?article=2006/2006-0200.ADM)
The International Trade Commission (ITC) has recently posted to its Web site an updated list of current antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) duty orders.
On February 8, 2006, the President signed into law S. 1932, the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005. Among numerous other things, S. 1932:
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 ITA states that it revoked this AD order in part with respect to entries of subject merchandise produced and exported by Viraj Alloys, Ltd., and VSL Wires, Ltd., effective December 1, 2003. As a result, the ITA is conditionally initiating a review with respect to certain companies, pending further information from the requestor as to sales of subject merchandise not covered by the revocation.
CBP has posted a summary of changes to the Automated Export System Trade Interface Requirements (AESTIR) on its Web site, indicating that Version 1.0 was changed or features were added or deleted on February 1, 2006 as follows:
On February 1, 2006, the House of Representatives passed the Senate-amended conference version of S. 1932, the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued a notice announcing the opportunity to request administrative reviews by February 28, 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."
According to International Trade Administration (ITA) sources, the antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) duty orders on hard red spring wheat from Canada will be revoked, effective January 2, 2006. These sources state that notice of these revocations is expected to be published in the Federal Register in the coming weeks.