A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's website May 20, 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 addcvd.cbp.gov. (CBP occasionally adds backdated messages without otherwise indicating which message was added. ITT will include a message date in parentheses in such cases.)
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:
In the May 14-15 editions of the Official Journal of the European Union, the following trade-related notices were posted:
On May 13, the Foreign Agricultural Service posted the following GAIN reports:
The Foreign Agricultural Service amended the availability credit guarantees for sales of U.S. agricultural commodities under the Commodity Credit Corporation's Export Credit Guarantee Program (GSM-102) for fiscal year 2013, for the following countries/regions:
On May 6, the Foreign Agricultural Service posted the following GAIN reports:
On May 2, the Foreign Agricultural Service posted the following GAIN reports:
The U.S. Trade Representative named Ukraine its first Priority Foreign Country in seven years, while citing significant progress on copyright issues in Canada and growing concerns over trade secret theft in China, in the agency’s 2013 Special 301 review process. The Special 301 report, an annual look at intellectual property rights protection and enforcement, placed 41 countries on one of three watch lists. The U.S. can initiate World Trade Organization dispute settlement proceedings or eliminate tariff preferences for countries on the lists. Read the complete report (here).
On April 30, the Foreign Agricultural Service posted the following GAIN reports:
The Commerce Department is giving advance notice that it and the International Trade Commission will consider revoking the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on carbon and certain alloy steel wire rod from Brazil (A-351-832 / C-351-833), Indonesia (A-560-910), Mexico (A-201-830), Moldova (A-841-805), Trinidad and Tobago (A-274-804), and Ukraine (A-823-812); the AD/CV duty orders on circular welded carbon quality steel pipe from China (A-570-910 / C-570-911); and the AD duty order on silicomanganese from Russia (A-821-817), in their automatic five-year sunset reviews scheduled to begin in June. Advance notice is given because automatic sunset reviews have short deadlines. An order will be revoked unless Commerce finds that revocation would lead to a continuation or recurrence of dumping and the ITC finds that revocation would result in continuation or recurrence of material injury to a U.S. industry. As a result, a negative determination by either Commerce or the ITC would result in the revocation of these orders.
The Food Safety and Inspection Service revised export requirements and plant lists for the following countries for April 19-26: