Powerful House Democrats -- including the Trade Subcommittee chairman, the majority leader and working group member Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn. -- are explicitly linking failures to enforce labor provisions in the U.S.-Colombia free trade agreement and weak enforcement tools in the new NAFTA. In a letter sent to the U.S. trade representative and the labor secretary on June 27, the Colombia Monitoring Group wrote, "The situation in Colombia highlights the systemic problems we face in enforcing our trade agreements across the board. In the face of long-standing and known problems, this Administration has demonstrated no urgency in resolving them...."
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of June 17-23:
The Supreme Court on June 24 denied a petition from the American Institute for International Steel to hear the trade group’s challenge of the constitutionality of Section 232 tariffs on iron and steel products. AIIS and two steel importers had filed the Supreme Court challenge directly after the Court of International Trade found itself bound by precedent to rule in favor of the government (see 1904160027), despite some concerns that the president’s Section 232 authority may be overly broad (see 1903250032). The overall challenge will continue under an appeal filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, said AIIS lawyer and George Washington University law professor Alan Morrison.
The Court of International Trade on June 21 denied a government motion to dismiss an importer’s denied protest challenge, finding “unreasonable” the government’s position that because some entries were listed in an attachment, rather than in the narrative portion of the protest, the protests of those entries were invalid.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of June 10-16:
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of June 3-9:
International Trade Today is providing readers with some of the top stories for June 3-7 in case they were missed.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website June 6, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at CBP's ADD CVD Search page:
Regulators approved a declaratory ruling Thursday allowing carriers to block unwanted robocalls by default. Commissioners Jessica Rosenworcel and Mike O’Rielly, who had signaled concerns (see 1906030008 and 1905310061), partially dissented. A Further NPRM asks about additional steps and was strengthened last week to add a proposal that the FCC mandate secure handling of asserted information using tokens and secure telephone identity revisited technology if major voice providers don’t comply with demands Shaken Stir be implemented by year-end.
Regulators approved a declaratory ruling Thursday allowing carriers to block unwanted robocalls by default. Commissioners Jessica Rosenworcel and Mike O’Rielly, who had signaled concerns (see 1906030008 and 1905310061), partially dissented. A Further NPRM asks about additional steps and was strengthened last week to add a proposal that the FCC mandate secure handling of asserted information using tokens and secure telephone identity revisited technology if major voice providers don’t comply with demands Shaken Stir be implemented by year-end.