The ITA states that if it does not receive, by the September 30, 2004 deadline, a request for review of entries covered by an AD or CV duty order listed above for the identified period, it will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to assess AD or CV duties on those entries at a rate equal to the cash deposit of (or bond for) estimated AD or CV duties required on those entries at the time of entry and to continue to collect the AD or CV cash deposit previously ordered.
On August 31, 2004, the World Trade Organization (WTO) authorized the European Union (EU), Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, India, Japan, and Korea (complainants) to retaliate against the U.S. for its failure to bring the Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act of 2000 (Byrd Amendment) into conformity with WTO rules by December 27, 2003.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued a preliminary negative countervailing (CV) duty determination on bottle-grade polyethylene terephthalate (PET) resin from Thailand. The ITA states that it has preliminarily determined that countervailable subsidies are not being provided to producers and exporters of bottle-grade PET resin from Thailand.
The International Trade Commission (ITC) has recently posted to its Web site an updated list of current antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) duty orders.
(a) preliminary de minimis CV rate of 1.62% for Futura. Liquidation will not be suspended and there will be no CV bond/cash deposit requirement as a result of this preliminary determination.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued messages on a number of antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) duty actions, many of which (marked by an * in the action column) were previously published in the Federal Register by the International Trade Administration (ITA) and summarized in International Trade Today.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued an appendix to a notice of final results of administrative review1, which states that it has determined that U.S. antidumping (AD) law (19 USC 1677a(c)(2)(A)) does not intend countervailing (CV) duties to be deducted from U.S. prices 2 when calculating AD margins (rates).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site its "critical list" of textiles and apparel subject to import quotas with entered quantities 85% or more filled as of August 23, 2004. CBP states that this "critical list" may be used by CBP as a reference for releasing quota merchandise "off line" when the Automated Commercial System (ACS) is down for longer than four hours. CBP notes that textile and apparel merchandise for Electronic Visa Information System (ELVIS) countries cannot be released "off line" until it is processed through quota. CBP further notes that if the system is down for more than 24 hours, Headquarters Quota Branch should be contacted for further instructions. CBP also states that merchandise subject to tariff-rate quotas (TRQs), which are filled, may be released if entered under the "over quota" (high) rate of duty. (CBP's critical list, dated 08/23/04, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/textile_critical_list/)
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.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued a preliminary negative countervailing (CV) duty determination on live swine from Canada finding that countervailable subsidies are not being provided to producers or exporters of live swine from Canada.