The Commerce Department recently issued a press release stating that the Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA) has made affirmative decisions of actual market disruption and "threat of" market disruption in the three self-initiated safeguard cases on China categories 338/339, 347/348, and 352/652.

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.

The Commerce Department's Office of Textiles and Apparel (OTEXA) has posted to its Web site the following five monthly reports containing official March 2005 trade data from the Department of Census for imports and exports of textiles and apparel:

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 self-initiated an antidumping (AD) duty changed circumstances review for the AD duty order on large newspaper printing presses and components thereof, whether assembled or unassembled from Japan, which was revoked on February 25, 2002.

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 International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued its preliminary results of the following antidumping (AD) duty administrative and new shipper reviews of the following items from China:

The International Trade Administration (ITA) has made final affirmative antidumping (AD) duty determinations that chlorinated isocyanurates from China and Spain are being, or are likely to be, sold in the U.S. at less than fair value.

The Fla. PSC gave preliminary approval to a settlement between BellSouth and CLECs on changes to BellSouth’s wholesale performance assurance plan. The agreement (Case 000121A-TP) is based on a PSC staff proposal combining elements of separate CLEC and BellSouth proposals. The agreement calls for reducing the number of performance metrics, modifying some remaining measures and reducing disaggregation in a transaction-based plan that also amends the penalty schedule. The PSC said the deal will create “an improved and more efficient performance monitoring mechanism.” The preliminary approval will become final May 26, unless some party files a challenge to it before then.

The Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA) has updated its preliminary textile and apparel import data by adding monthly April 2005 data.