U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued two notices regarding the changes made by the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) Acceleration Act of 2004 (AGOA III) for textiles and apparel, one of which contains instructions for requesting certain retroactive AGOA II (Trade Act of 2002) and AGOA III apparel benefits, as detailed below.
On July 22, both the House of Representatives and the Senate passed H.R. 4842, the "U.S.-Morocco Free Trade Agreement (FTA) Implementation Act," clearing the measure for the President.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has amended its final results of the antidumping (AD) duty administrative review of certain hot-rolled carbon steel flat products from Netherlands for the review period of May 3, 2001 through October 31, 2002.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site various materials related to the June 28- July 1, 2004 meeting of the Trade Support Network (TSN).
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issuedits final results of the five-year sunset review of the countervailing (CV) duty order on stainless steel wire rod from Italy. As a result, the ITA is revoking the CV duty order effective September 15, 2003.
(a) ZG has a preliminary de minimis AD margin of 0.04%; suspension of liquidation and AD cash deposits or the posting of a bond will not be required
(a) Hang Lung has an amended final de minimis AD margin of 0.24% (from 0.20%); suspension of liquidation and AD cash deposits or the posting of a bond for merchandise both produced and exported by Hang Lung will continue to not be required.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued its preliminary results of the following antidumping (AD) duty administrative reviews:
new shipper review; bonding will no longer be permitted to fulfill AD security requirements.
(a) final AD cash deposit rate of zero; however, suspension of liquidation will continue