The Commerce Department recently issued a press release stating that the Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA) has made affirmative decisions of "threat of" market disruption in four safeguard cases, for China categories 301, 340/640, 638/639, and 647/648.
MSNBC reports that more than 200 members of the House of Representatives are co-sponsoring a bill that would tighten and codify existing sanctions on Iran, bar subsidiaries of U.S. companies from doing business in Iran and cut foreign aid to countries that have businesses investing in Iran. The Senate is also considering a more limited version of this bill. (MSNBC Pub 05/16/05, available at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7869442/print/1/displaymode/1098/)
The Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA) has posted to its web site updated preliminary textile and apparel import data for 2005, which now covers the 2005 period from February to May 7th.
The Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA) has issued a press release stating that it has made affirmative decisions of "threat of" market disruption in the safeguard cases on China categories 301, 340/640, 638/639 and 647/648. The 30-day comment period for these cases closed prior to December 30, 2004.
The U.S. Census Bureau (Census) has issued a final rule, effective June 15, 2005, that amends the Foreign Trade Statistics Regulations (FTSR) to incorporate the requirement for reporting the Kimberley Process Certificate (KPC) number for exports/reexports of rough diamonds filed through the Automated Export System (AES) in accordance with the Clean Diamond Trade Act (Public Law (P.L.) 108-19).
The Commerce Department has issued a press release stating that the Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA) has made affirmative decisions of actual market disruption in the three self-initiated safeguard cases on China categories 338/339, 347/348, and 352/652. The 30-day comment period for these self-initiated cases ended recently, on May 9, 2005.
CITA Updates its Official Textile and Apparel Import Data for China (Official March 2005 Data Added)
The Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA) has posted to its web site updated official textile and apparel import data from the Department of Census for March 2005.
The Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA) has updated its preliminary textile and apparel import data by adding monthly April 2005 data.
The Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA) has issued a notice announcing that it has resumed its consideration of whether to implement safeguard quotas based on "threat of" market disruption for China-origin textiles and apparel in the following individual or merged categories:
On April 29, 2005, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) announced the results of its 2005 "Special 301" annual report on intellectual property rights (IPR) protection.