The Commerce Department on April 18 released its quarterly update to its annual list of foreign government subsidies on imported articles of cheese subject to an in-quota rate of duty July 1, 2023, through Sept. 30, 2023. The agency again found that only Canada is providing subsidies, in the form of export assistance.
Although all members of the House Ways and Means Committee supported a bill renewing the Generalized System of Preferences benefits program, the bill proceeded to the House floor on a split bipartisan vote of 17-24 as Democrats unsuccessfully called to include an extension of the Trade Adjustment Assistance for Workers program, which lapsed in 2022.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP has released its April 17 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 58, No. 15). While it contains recent court decisions, no customs rulings are included.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website April 17, 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.
After October's deadline passed without an agreement between the U.S. and the EU on a global trade deal for steel and aluminum (see 2404040034), talks are still ongoing, the European Commission’s top trade official said during a news conference April 18.
FORT LAUDERDALE -- CBP in the final review and selection stage" for accreditors of continuing education for customs brokers, and will announce "in the coming months" the start date for broker continuing education requirements, the number of hours required for this triennial reporting period and the names of the approved accreditors, said Shari McCann, director of CBP's Cargo Security and Controls Division, on April 17.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the April 17 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 April 17 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 has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on polyester textured yarn from India (A-533-885). Commerce continued its preliminary assignment of a zero percent AD rate for Reliance Industries Limited and its affiliate Alok Industries Limited for the period of review, Jan. 1, 2022, through Dec. 31, 2022. Entries from Reliance/Alok during the review period will be liquidated without any assessment of AD, and future entries of subject merchandise exported by Reliance/Alok won't be subject to AD duty cash deposit requirements until further notice. The new zero percent AD cash deposit rate takes effect April 18, the date the final results are set to be published in the Federal Register.