The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is seeking comments by June 29, 2012, on its environmental assessment relative to its April 16, 2012, proposal to allow the importation of fresh bananas from the Philippines into the U.S. under a systems approach.
The International Trade Administration is seeking comments by July 30, 2012, on a proposed information collection regarding requests for textile and apparel safeguard actions provided for by the U.S.-Columbia Trade Promotion Agreement (CTPA) Implementation Act.
The International Sugar Trade Coalition (ISTC) urged the U.S. to maintain its policy against reopening terms of access established in existing bilateral free trade agreements, and therefore to not provide additional access to Australian sugar, in a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk. The ISTC, which represents sugar industries in developing countries that traditionally supply the U.S. market with sugar, sent the letter in response to arguments to increase Australia’s access to the U.S. market in an earlier letter by U.S. business associations to the USTR.
The Court of International Trade remanded for further redetermination the final results of the International Trade Administration’s 2007-08 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products from Korea (A-580-816). In this consolidated action, four plaintiffs, Korean exporters Union Steel Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Dongbu Steel Co., Ltd., and Hyundai HYSCO, as well as U.S. Steel, a member of the U.S. domestic industry, challenged the ITA’s final results. Additionally, the ITA requested a voluntary remand with respect to four claims.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection said it will cancel a continuous bond where the liability was calculated pursuant to enhanced bonding requirements (EBR bond) upon its acceptance of a qualified superseding (replacement) bond application for all importers who were not litigants in any of the National Fisheries Institute, Inc. (NFI) v. CBP court cases at the Court of International Trade.
Mexico's Diario Oficial of May 28-29, 2012, lists notices from the Secretary of the Economy as follows:
Brazil is one of the world's largest agricultural economies and has emerged as a leading global exporter of numerous agricultural commodities, but its direct competition with the U.S. for sales of soybeans, grains, and meats to third country markets has been somewhat limited, said the International Trade Commission in its publication “Brazil: Competitive Factors in Brazil Affecting U.S. and Brazilian Agricultural Sales in Selected Third Country Markets." The ITC recently completed the investigation at the request of the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance.
The International Trade Commission is publishing notices in the May 29, 2012, 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):
The International Trade Administration published notices in the May 29, 2012, Federal Register on the following AD/CV proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CV duty rates, the scope, affected firms, or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):
The International Trade Administration initiated administrative reviews for certain firms subject to antidumping or countervailing duty orders with April anniversary dates. The ITA has also received a request to revoke in part two antidumping orders for one exporter each. The ITA intends to issue the final results of these reviews no later than March 31, 2013.