A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Dec. 1, 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 ADCVD Search page.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
International Trade Today is providing readers with the top stories from last week in case they were missed. All articles can be found by searching on the titles or by clicking on the hyperlinked reference number.
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., in a brief hallway interview at the Capitol, told International Trade Today that he "absolutely" believes that a renewal of the African Growth and Opportunity Act can get a vote in the House soon.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said that the U.S. will retroactively eliminate tariffs on airplane parts, lower auto and auto parts tariffs to 15% and "unstack" the reciprocal rate from most-favored nation duties so that 15% is an all-in number for South Korea, same as for Japan and the EU.
The Council of the EU, which is made up of government ministers from each EU country, voted last week to eliminate customs duties on industrial products and to grant tariff rate quotas for some seafood and agricultural products. It also voted to extend duty-free treatment for U.S. lobster exports. That tariff treatment had expired in July.
The ruling Democratic Party of South Korea submitted a bill on Nov. 26 to establish a state-run investment fund for managing investments in the U.S., paving the way for a reduction in U.S. tariffs on Korean automobiles and their parts, the Korea Times reported.
The International Trade Commission is set to make its final injury determination by April 1 in a recently initiated Section 201 safeguard investigation on quartz surface products. The commission will then submit its recommendations to the president by May 18, it said in a notice published Dec. 1.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Dec. 1 Federal Register on the following antidumping and countervailing duty injury, Section 337 patent or other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Dec. 1 on the following antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CVD rates, scope, affected firms or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):