The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices July 30:
After the Commerce Department released the outstanding Section 232 reports (see 2107290039), the lawyers for a vanadium exporter cheered the outcome. The Trump administration initiated a national security investigation into vanadium imports, but the Biden administration made the decision that vanadium imports do not threaten national security.
The Commerce Department posted its Section 232 investigation reports on whether national security is threatened by imports of vanadium, transformers and transformer inputs made from grain-oriented electrical steel (GOES), titanium sponge and uranium. All the investigations were initiated under the Trump administration, but the most recently completed investigation on vanadium was finished after President Joe Biden took office (see 2103020027).
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices July 20:
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices July 19:
The Commerce Department on July 16 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 Jan. 1 through March 31, 2021. The agency again found that only Canada is providing subsidies, in the form of export assistance.
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices July 16:
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices July 14:
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices July 12:
The Commerce Department released a redacted version July 6 of its Section 232 report on the national security implications of U.S. imports of autos and auto parts. The Bureau of Industry and Security posted the report and its appendices, dated Feb. 17, 2019. Then-Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross suggested two scenarios for tariffs that the Trump administration could impose if USMCA negotiations weren't productive. No tariffs were imposed as a result of the report, but the possibility of tariffs remained a threat for years after.