The International Trade Commission published notices in the Jan. 16 Federal Register on the following AD/CVD injury, Section 337 patent or other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Jan. 16 on the following AD/CV duty proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CV duty rates, scope, affected firms or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department intends to recognize four Canadian companies as cross-owned entities for the purposes of countervailing duties on softwood lumber products from Canada (C-122-858). The agency in the preliminary results of a changed circumstances review found Interfor Corporation, EACOM Timber Corporation, Chaleur Forest Products Inc., and Chaleur Forest Products LP are cross-owned entities. Commerce noted that the purpose of the CCR doesn't include identifying the applicable cash deposit rates for the companies in question but said that all four have already been assigned the cash deposit rate that non-selected companies have.
On Jan. 12, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
A bipartisan House bill to consolidate CBP positions is scheduled to get a vote this week. Introduced by Reps. Michelle Steel, R-Calif., and Jimmy Panetta, D-Calif., the measure would eliminate job descriptions of import specialist, entry specialist, national account manager, international trade specialist, drawback specialist and national import specialist, consolidating those duties under the job of global trade specialist. The bill previously passed out of the Ways and Means Committee unanimously (see 2311070066).
The House and the Senate have agreed to temporarily fund the federal government through March 1 or March 8, depending on the agency. The continuing resolution in place now ends, for some agencies, on Jan. 19. The two chambers still need to vote on the legislation to extend funding beyond the end of this week.
An agreement between the chairmen of the House Ways and Means and the Senate Finance committees includes authorization for the administration to negotiate a fix to tax laws for foreign investment in Taiwan but doesn't include a renewal of the Generalized System of Preferences benefits program.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Jan. 8-14:
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Jan. 12, 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 CBP's ADCVD Search page.