The Bureau of Industry and Security is adding 21 entities under 23 entries to the Entity List, under the destinations of Bulgaria, China, Kazakhstan, Russia, Syria and the United Arab Emirates, the agency said. BIS is also removing three entities, two under the destination UAE and one under the destination Taiwan. The agency is also updating an entry under Pakistan and an entry under China, BIS said.
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:
The Commerce Department issued antidumping duty orders on carbon and alloy steel wire rod from Russia, Belarus and the United Arab Emirates (A-821-824, A-822-806, A-520-808). The orders detail a "gap period" of Jan. 10, 2018, through Jan. 17, 2018, of no AD duty liability, and refunds of cash deposits for subject merchandise from Russia entered before Sept. 12, 2017.
China continues to flout the spirit of World Trade Organization rules, casting doubt on the wisdom of allowing it to join the body in 2011 on the terms it was offered, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative said in a report on China’s WTO compliance released Jan 19. Hopes that China would become an open market economy “were disappointed,” and China continues to deploy market-distorting policies that the WTO trade rules were not formulated to address, limiting market access for imported goods and services while providing government support to Chinese industries, USTR said. “It seems clear that the United States erred in supporting China’s entry into the WTO on terms that have proven to be ineffective in securing China’s embrace of an open, market-oriented trade regime,” it said.
Ur-Energy USA and Energy Fuels Resources recently filed a joint request for a Section 232 investigation on the national security effects of uranium imports. The petition says imports of uranium, particularly from Russia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, imperil the viability of the U.S. domestic uranium mining industry and its ability to supply uranium for nuclear weapons and reactors aboard naval vessels. The two mining companies request a quota that would reserve 25 percent of the U.S. market for domestically mined uranium, as well as a Buy America policy for U.S. government agencies that use uranium.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Jan. 18 Federal Register on the following AD/CV injury, Section 337 patent and other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department issued its final determinations in the antidumping duty investigations on carbon and alloy steel wire rod from South Africa (A-791-823) and Ukraine (A-823-816).
The International Trade Commission on Dec. 19 voted that dumped imports of carbon and alloy steel wire rod from Belarus, Russia and the United Arab Emirates, clearing the way for the Commerce Department to impose permanent antidumping duty orders, the ITC said in a press release. Once it issues the AD duty orders, Commerce will begin the process of conducting annual administrative reviews, if requested, to determine assessments of AD duties on importers. Commerce set AD rates at 280.02% for all Belarusian exporters, at 84.1% for all UAE exporters, and at AD rates ranging from 436.8% to 756.93% for Russian exporters in its final dumping determination (see 1711270015).
The Commerce Department is amending its preliminary determination in the antidumping duty investigation on carbon and alloy steel wire rod from Italy (A-475-836). The agency is decreasing AD duty cash deposit rates in effect for all Italian exporters, in a correction to errors in its Oct. 31 preliminary determination (see 1710300025). Effective Dec. 21, AD duty cash deposit rates for Italian exporters are as follows:
The Bureau of Industry and Security is adding two entities to the Entity List under the destination of Russia, the agency said.
In recent editions of the Official Journal of the European Union the following trade-related notices were posted: