The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) has issued a notice requesting comments by July 15, 2004 regarding a World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute for which a dispute settlement panel was established on November 7, 2003, at the request of the U.S., to examine Mexico's definitive antidumping (AD) measure on U.S. long-grain white rice and certain provisions of Mexico's Foreign Trade Act.
The Journal of Commerce reports that the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) will take longer to complete than planned because, among other things, the need for anti-terrorism features in the system has apparently set back its development. The article notes that while U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) originally hoped to have ACE constructed over five years, with completion in 2007 or 2008, officials now state that with the added technology and the need for additional funding, ACE is likely to be on an eight- to ten-year schedule, which would have it completed by 2010 at the earliest. (JoC dated 06/21-27/04, www.joc.com.)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued its weekly quota commodity report as of June 21, 2004. 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, 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 under HTS 9902.51.11 & 9902.51.12, etc. (CBP's weekly quota commodity report dated 06/21/04, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)
The International Trade Commission (ITC) has recently posted to its Web site an updated list of current antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) duty orders.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site the preliminary dollar amounts available to disperse under the Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act of 2000 (Offset Act) for fiscal year (FY) 2004.
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) 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 State Department's Washington File reports that on June 7, 2004, the Supreme Court unanimously overturned a lower court ruling that required the Department of Transportation (DOT) to conduct an environmental study on the impact that Mexican trucks would have on air quality if permitted to operate in the U.S. In response, DOT Secretary Mineta stated that the Supreme Court decision opens the way for DOT to continue working with Mexican authorities to move forward with long-haul bus and truck operations. (Washington File article dated 06/07/04, available at http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&y=2004&m=June&x=20040607153418ASrelliM0.1072199&t=livefeeds/wf-latest.html.)
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 a notice announcing the opportunity to request administrative reviews of the following antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) duty orders: