According to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection message, effective March 2, 2010, the International Trade Administration discontinued the suspension of liquidation for countervailing duty purposes for prestressed concrete steel wire strand from China.
The International Trade Administration frequently issues notices on antidumping and countervailing duty orders, investigations, etc. which Broker Power considers to be "minor" in importance as they concern actions that occur after an order is issued, neither announce nor cause any changes to an order's duty rates, scope, affected firms, or effective period, etc.
Broker Power is now issuing weekly summary reports highlighting the most active textile and apparel tariff preference levels1 from U.S. Customs and Border Protection's "Quota Weekly Commodity Status Report." BP's weekly report also lists the TRQ commodities on CBP's weekly "TRQ/TPL Threshold to Fill List."
The International Trade Commission has announced the institution of an investigation and the commencement of preliminary phase antidumping duty injury investigation regarding glyphosate from China.
NTIA got only 867 applications for the second and final round of the Broadband Technologies Opportunities Program, an NTIA spokeswoman confirmed Monday. “The preliminary count is 867 but we are still processing some applications,” the spokeswoman said. “We expect to announce a final count soon.” In round one, NTIA received and reviewed 1,789 applications. Applicants sought funding for all three of the program categories administered by the agency, records show. NTIA received $19 billion in requests in the first round, but only had $1.5 billion to award during the round. NTIA has to hand out $4.7 billion by Sept. 30, 2010, under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Analyst Craig Settles said in an interview Monday it will be difficult to say how many applicants gave up and didn’t file in the second round, after trying in the first, until the Rural Utilities Service also releases numbers. “From anecdotal stories, I would say there were a decent number of folks who just gave up in frustration,” Settles said. Potential applicants were troubled that all grants from the first round have yet to be awarded, so they don’t know whether a particular area is eligible for funding, Settles said. Many had questions about how much weight the more than 11,000 challenges from incumbents were being given, as well as the weight assigned recommendations from various governors’ offices, he said. “If you're sitting on the sideline you say why should I bother,” Settles said. “NTIA was set up really to fail, definitely to do poorly,” he said. “The time lines, the volume of dollars, everything was structured in such a way that it was impossible to do well.”
Brazil's Foreign Trade Chamber (CAMEX) has approved a resolution to temporarily delay the increased duties on U.S. products that were set to take effect April 7, 2010. The increased duties are in response to the U.S.' noncompliance with the World Trade Organization's upland cotton dispute ruling.1
NTIA got only 867 applications for the second and final round of the Broadband Technologies Opportunities Program, an NTIA spokeswoman confirmed Monday. “The preliminary count is 867 but we are still processing some applications,” the spokeswoman said. “We expect to announce a final count soon.” In round one, NTIA received and reviewed 1,789 applications. Applicants sought funding for all three of the program categories administered by the agency, records show. NTIA received $19 billion in requests in the first round, but only had $1.5 billion to award during the round. NTIA has to hand out $4.7 billion by Sept. 30, 2010, under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Analyst Craig Settles said in an interview Monday it will be difficult to say how many applicants gave up and didn’t file in the second round, after trying in the first, until the Rural Utilities Service also releases numbers. “From anecdotal stories, I would say there were a decent number of folks who just gave up in frustration,” Settles said. Potential applicants were troubled that all grants from the first round have yet to be awarded, so they don’t know whether a particular area is eligible for funding, Settles said. Many had questions about how much weight the more than 11,000 challenges from incumbents were being given, as well as the weight assigned recommendations from various governors’ offices, he said. “If you're sitting on the sideline you say why should I bother,” Settles said. “NTIA was set up really to fail, definitely to do poorly,” he said. “The time lines, the volume of dollars, everything was structured in such a way that it was impossible to do well.”
The International Trade Commission has announced the institution of investigations and the commencement of preliminary phase antidumping and countervailing duty injury investigations regarding aluminum extrusions from China.
The Federal Railroad Administration has issued a notice requesting public comments on the development of the long-range National Rail Plan (NRP) through an open docket.
The International Trade Administration has initiated an anticircumvention inquiry to determine whether certain imports of tissue paper from Vietnam are circumventing the antidumping duty order on tissue paper products from China.