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.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued its weekly quota commodity report as of April 18, 2005. This report includes tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) on various products such as beef, tuna, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa powder, tobacco, certain JFTA, NAFTA, SFTA, UAFTA and UCFTA TRQs, etc. This report also includes the AGOA, ATPDEA, CBTPA, NAFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA tariff preference levels (TPLs) for qualifying apparel and/or other textile articles, the TRQs on worsted wool fabrics, etc. (CBP's weekly quota commodity report, dated 04/18/05, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)
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.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued an administrative message stating that the Quota Preprocessing (QPP) program test has been extended until December 31, 2006 for apparel in HTS Chapters 61 and 62 that are subject to absolute quota. Under QPP, quota priority and status are determined prior to the arrival of the carrier. Merchandise subject to TPLs or TRQs are not eligible for QPP. (See ITT's Online Archives or 01/11/05 news, (Ref:0501115) for earlier BP summary.) (QBT-05-044, dated 04/13/05, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/qbts/qbt2005/05_044.ctt/05_044.doc )
Effective August 5, 2004, the International Trade Administration (ITA) is revoking the antidumping (AD) duty order on frozen concentrated orange juice (FCOJ) from Brazil as the International Trade Commission (ITC) has determined that revocation of this AD duty order would not be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of material injury to an industry in the U.S. within a reasonably foreseeable time.
According to the Washington File, Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana has blocked Senate vote on U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) nominee Rob Portman until a vote is scheduled for his bill, the Stopping Overseas Subsidies (SOS) Act, which is aimed at countering unfair countervailing subsidies in non-market economies, especially China. (Washington File Pub 04/13/05, available at http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&y=2005&m=April&x=20050413113532ebyessedo0.4256555&t=livefeeds/wf-latest.html)
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.
Effective February 9, 2005, the International Trade Administration (ITA) is revoking the antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) duty orders on new steel rail from Canada as no domestic interested parties have participated in these five-year sunset reviews, which were initiated on January 3, 2005.
Effective February 17, 2005, the International Trade Administration (ITA) announced that it is revoking the antidumping (AD) duty orders on cotton shop towels from Bangladesh and China, as well as the countervailing (CV) duty order on such merchandise from Pakistan. The ITA states that it is revoking these orders as no domestic interested parties responded to the ITA's notice initiating these five-year sunset reviews by the applicable deadline.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a QBT which lists the total quantity of TRQ raw cane sugar entered against each subject country's low-duty tariff rate quota (TRQ) during the October 1, 2003 - September 30, 2004 TRQ period. The report also lists the rollover quantity (the 'excess' quantity) for each subject country that resulted from the initial quantity being adjusted due to polarization testing. CBP states that these listed rollover quantities will be charged to the subject country's 2004-2005 TRQ level for raw cane sugar. (QBT-05-512, dated 04/08/05, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/qbts/qbt2005/05_512.ctt/05_512.doc )