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President Donald Trump, ahead of a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, denied that his tariff actions against Canada and Mexico have killed USMCA, but also cast doubt on its future. He said USMCA "was a transitional deal" to move away from NAFTA, and said "we'll see what happens" with the renegotiation. He said it could be adjusted, or terminated.
Seko Logistics announced Vanessa Rambo will join the company as chief compliance officer, the company said in a news release May 5. Rambo, a licensed customs broker, was previously with Lamb Weston, Nestle, Meggitt and Bostik. The company also said Brendan Belz is joining as chief transformation officer, and Alain Chimene is joining as regional president for the Asia-Pacific.
Kelly Ann Shaw, a senior White House trade and economics official during the first Trump administration, has joined Akin Gump's lobbying and public policy practice. The law firm said she was a "key architect" of the administration's trade policies and a negotiator for the U.S.-China phase one trade deal.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the May 5 Federal Register on the following antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) 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 May 5 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):
The Commerce Department is giving advance notice that in automatic five-year sunset reviews scheduled to begin in June it will consider revoking the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on calcium hypochlorite from China (A-570-008/C-570-009), collated steel staples from China (A-570-112/C-570-113) and lightweight thermal paper from China (A-570-920/C-570-921), as well as the antidumping duty order on electrolytic manganese dioxide from China (A-570-979). These orders will be revoked, or the investigation terminated, unless Commerce finds that revocation would lead to dumping and the International Trade Commission finds that revocation would result in injury to the U.S. industry, Commerce said.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission began five-year sunset reviews of the antidumping duty and countervailing duty orders on carbon and certain alloy steel wire rod from China (A-570-012/C-570-013), ceramic tile from China (A-570-108/C-570-109) and quartz surface products from Turkey and India (A-489-837/C-489-838, A-533-889/C-533-890), as well as the antidumping duty order on silicon metal from Russia (A-821-817), Commerce said in a notice May 1.
The Commerce Department said it's rescinding the administrative review of the countervailing duty order on multilayered wood flooring from China (C-570-971) for the period of review Jan. 1, 2023, through Dec. 31, 2023, because there were no reviewable, suspended entries of subject merchandise during the review period for seven of the companies for which the review had been requested -- Dongtai Fuan Universal Dynamics, LLC; HaiLin LinJing Wooden Products Co., Ltd.; Hunchun Xingjia Wooden Flooring Inc.; Jiashan On-Line Lumber Co., Ltd.; Suzhou Dongda Wood Co., Ltd.; Zhejiang Longsen Lumbering Co., Ltd.; and Zhejiang Shiyou Timber Co., Ltd. As well, Commerce is rescinding the review for Riverside Plywood Corporation and its cross-owned affiliates Baroque Timber Industries (Zhongshan) Co., Ltd., Suzhou Times Flooring Co., Ltd., and Zhongshan Lianjia Flooring Co., Ltd. because Riverside Plywood withdrew its request for a review.
The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of a countervailing duty administrative review of passenger vehicle and light truck tires from China (C-570-017). This review covers subject merchandise from the exporters under review entered during the period Jan. 1, 2023, through Dec. 31, 2023.