EU ministers this week officially adopted a ban on products made with forced labor, marking one of the final steps in a yearslong lawmaking process designed to eliminate EU imports, exports or other sales of those goods (see 2404230048 and 2403050035). The new regulations will apply about three years after publication in the Official Journal of the EU.
Trump transition team members may have already drafted an executive order hiking tariffs on Chinese imports, said Peterson Institute for International Economics fellow Mary Lovely, during a webinar moderated by former European commissioner and now PIIE fellow Cecilia Malmstrom.
Members of the House Ways and Means Committee majority, who will lead the extension or expansion of the first Trump term income tax cuts, are expressing some hesitancy about using tariffs as a pay-for.
The Federal Maritime Commission is seeking public comments on information collections related to marine terminal operator schedules, service contracts, non-vessel-operating common carrier service arrangements and negotiated rate agreements. Comments are due Jan. 21,
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Nov. 19 Federal Register on the following 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 International Trade Commission seeks comment by Nov. 28 on a Section 337 complaint on allegations that imports of network equipment that supports Bit Indexed Explicit Replication (BIER) standards infringe patents held by Optimum Communications Services, the ITC said in a notice to be published Nov. 20. According to the complaint, Optimum is seeking a general exclusion order, a limited exclusion order, and cease and desist orders against Chinese companies Tongruida Information Technology, Ella Optoelectronic Technology Hebei, Zhengzhou Qiongzhi Ceyu Network Technology, and Beijing Morriss Technology, barring "network switching and routing equipment supporting" BIER from entry.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Nov. 19 on the following AD/CV duty proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CV duty rates, scope, affected firms or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department is correcting the scope listed in its recent notices announcing the beginning of antidumping and countervailing investigations on thermoformed molded products from China (A-570-182/C-570-183) and Vietnam (A-552-845/C-552-846) (see 2411010031). The scope had identified the wrong Harmonized Tariff Schedule numbers subject to the investigations. The corrected scope says the investigations cover goods of subheadings 4823.70.0020 and 4823.70.0040, as well as subheadings 4823.61.0020, 4823.61.0040, 4823.69.0020, 4823.69.0040 and 4823.90.1000.
The Commerce Department is beginning an anti-circumvention inquiry to determine whether all imports of circular welded carbon quality steel pipe from Oman made from Chinese hot-rolled steel are circumventing antidumping and countervailing duties on circular welded carbon quality steel pipe from China (A-570-910/C-570-911), it said Nov. 19.
The Commerce Department issued notices in the Federal Register on its recently initiated antidumping duty investigations on paper file folders from Cambodia (A-555-005) and Sri Lanka (A-542-806), as well as a new countervailing duty investigation on the same product from Cambodia (C-555-006). The CVD investigation covers entries for the calendar year 2023. The AD investigations cover entries Oct. 1, 2023, through Sept. 30, 2024.