The Bureau of Industry and Security issued a temporary denial order for Russian airline Ural Airlines after it violated U.S. export controls by flying multiple aircraft to Russia, BIS said. Under the order, Ural Airlines’ export privileges will be revoked for at least 180 days.
The World Trade Organization Oct. 12 announced the three arbitrators who will preside over the Colombia and EU arbitration proceeding over Colombia's antidumping duties on frozen fries from Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands: Jose Alfredo Graca Lima, Alejandro Jara and Joost Pauwelyn. Graca Lima will serve as the chair. A dispute panel previously found that Colombia violated the AD agreement. It said Colombia's investigating authority failed to look at whether the use of third-country sales prices for calculating normal value was appropriate instead of domestic sales prices, among other things (see 2210110022).
Colombia and the EU initiated an arbitration proceeding at the World Trade Organization to look over a dispute panel's findings in a proceeding on Colombia's antidumping duties on frozen fries from Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands, the WTO said. Colombia circulated the notice of appeal Oct. 10 and started the arbitration proceeding under Article 25 of the Dispute Settlement Understanding.
African Growth and Opportunity Act benefits for Kenya need to continue as any trade partnership is formed, commenters said, especially the third-country fabric rule of origin.
The Bureau of Industry and Security this week updated its restricted aircraft list with 25 foreign-produced planes that have violated U.S. export controls. BIS said the commercial planes -- which are the first foreign-produced aircraft added to the list -- violated the Export Administration Regulations’ de minimis threshold for U.S. components by flying into Russia or Belarus. The agency also updated various tail numbers and serial numbers for other listed planes.
The Bureau of Industry and Security updated its restricted aircraft list with 25 foreign-produced planes that have violated U.S. export controls, the agency said in an news release. BIS said the commercial planes -- which are the first foreign-produced aircraft added to the list -- violated the Export Administration Regulations’ de minimis threshold for U.S. components by flying into Russia or Belarus. Certain activities involving the planes, including maintenance and repair, are now subject to restrictions outlined in General Prohibition 10 of the EAR.
A centrist think-tank says that red tape at the border costs U.S. exporters more than twice what they pay in tariffs, and says that the U.S. should continue to push for trade facilitation measures. The World Trade Organization passed a Trade Facilitation Agreement, but developing countries did not have to implement it immediately, and even five years after it went into force about 23% of its provisions have not been implemented. Only half of signatories have established a single window, which helps exporters and importers file most documents electronically. The WTO estimated that full implementation would reduce trade costs by 14.3%.
Republicans who are in the China package negotiations say that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's tweet that said that moving even a smaller Build Back Better bill would halt negotiations was not an empty threat. He had said that while Congress was away from Washington, at the beginning of the month (see 2207010039).
Five Republican senators, only one of whom voted for the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act (USICA), are asking that Senate conferees drop the directive to reopen a Section 301 exclusion process, and add a number of trade provisions only found in the House China package. Some House proposals that Sen. Mike Braun, R-Ind., Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Ala., Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., and Florida's two senators, Rick Scott and Marco Rubio, both Republicans, want to include:
As senators who support subsidies to build semiconductor chips in the U.S. continue to say the trade title differences are holding up the bill, and that it should drop out, House negotiators say it's not time to give up yet.