The Commerce Department is beginning antidumping duty investigations on grain oriented electrical steel from China, the Czech Republic, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Poland, and Russia, and a countervailing duty investigation on GOES from China, according to an Oct. 25 fact sheet released by the agency. Domestic steel companies requested the investigations on Sept. 18, alleging dumped and illegally-subsidized imports are taking domestic market share and causing falling sales and profits (see 13091909). The International Trade Commission is set to make its preliminary injury determination by Nov. 20. These AD/CV duty investigations will only continue if the ITC finds injury. ITT will provide more details upon publication of the initiation notice in the Federal Register.
Russia export controls and sanctions
The use of export controls and sanctions on Russia has surged since the country's invasion of Crimea in 2014, and especially its invasion of Ukraine in in February 2022. Similar export controls and sanctions have been imposed by U.S. allies, including the EU, U.K. and Japan. The following is a listing of recent articles in Export Compliance Daily on export controls and sanctions imposed on Russia:
On Oct. 24 the Foreign Agricultural Service posted the following GAIN reports:
On Oct. 23 the Foreign Agricultural Service posted the following GAIN reports:
On Oct. 22 the Foreign Agricultural Service posted the following GAIN reports:
On Oct. 17 the Foreign Agricultural Service posted the following GAIN reports:
Faruqi & Faruqi is investigating "potential claims" against the Lumber Liquidators' board of directors by company shareholders over possible Lacey Act violations, the firm said in a press release. "The investigation concerns actions by Lumber Liquidators' Board of Directors that have caused the Company to allegedly violate the federal Lacey Act relating to the allegedly illegal importation of lumber from China and Russia," the press release said. ICE and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service executed a sealed search warrant on Sept. 26 at the company's Toana and Richmond, Va., corporate offices (see 13092716).
Leaders of 21 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation countries pledged to improve supply chain performance and guard against new barriers to trade, in their final declaration from the Oct. 5-7 APEC summit in Bali. The heads of state extended their commitment not to raise new trade and investment barriers, and to roll back existing protectionist measures. They also said they would accelerate their work to “achieve a 10% improvement in supply-chain performance by 2015 in terms of time, cost, and uncertainty,” the declaration said.
The European Union issued the following trade-related releases Oct 9-10 (notices of most significance will be given separate headlines):
The potential for progress at the World Trade Organization (WTO) December ministerial summit in Bali lies largely in the areas of information technology tariff elimination and trade facilitation, said roundtable participants at a National Foreign Trade Council event on Oct. 8 and an Information Technology Industry Council industry official on the same day. Participant nations may deliver an Information Technology Agreement expansion deal that will eliminate tariffs on a host of new information technology products, said the officials.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Oct. 3 Federal Register on the following AD/CV injury, Section 337 patent, and other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will appear in another ITT article):