The Commerce Department announced the opportunity to request administrative reviews by April 30 for producers and exporters subject to nine antidumping duty orders and one countervailing duty order with April anniversary dates (here).
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Feb. 9, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at http://adcvd.cbp.dhs.gov/adcvdweb.
Dozens of U.S. agricultural producers and industry associations, along with Wal-Mart, urged Congress on Feb. 5 to pass Trade Promotion Authority “as quickly as possible,” in a letter to House and Senate members. TPA will usher in free trade agreements that slash barriers to trade, and U.S. agricultural is poised to benefit significantly from an expanding U.S. trade agenda, said the letter (here).
The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security added the following 14 entries to the Unverified List (here):
Republicans will have more House Commerce Committee muscle as they attempt a Communications Act overhaul this year, with new members from both parties eager to dig into the issues and showing telecom expertise. Net neutrality also will be a major political focal point, with legislation likely on deck at least in the Senate (see 1412310033) and House lawmakers planning an FCC oversight hearing on net neutrality early in 2015.
Republicans will have more House Commerce Committee muscle as they attempt a Communications Act overhaul this year, with new members from both parties eager to dig into the issues and showing telecom expertise. Net neutrality also will be a major political focal point, with legislation likely on deck at least in the Senate (see 1412310033) and House lawmakers planning an FCC oversight hearing on net neutrality early in 2015.
The U.S. and China are making progress on a number of trade and investment fronts, but the Obama administration is still concerned with inadequate improvements and sometimes worsening trade barriers both systematically and across a wide range of sectors, the Office of U.S. Trade Representative said in a report on China’s World Trade Organization compliance (here). Since the Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade met in mid-December, administration officials have mostly praised U.S.-Chinese cooperation on improvements to trade relations (see 1412300012).
The Commerce Department published notices in the Dec. 29 Federal Register on the following AD/CV duty proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CV duty rates, scope, affected firms, or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Dec. 10, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at http://adcvd.cbp.dhs.gov/adcvdweb.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Nov. 26, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at http://adcvd.cbp.dhs.gov/adcvdweb.