The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices Feb. 8:
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices Feb. 3:
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices Jan. 28:
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices Jan. 27:
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce says the foreign adversary rule promulgated six days before President Donald Trump left office (see 2101150055) will undermine the economic recovery from the pandemic. The rule provides for Commerce Department review of imports of goods in the telecommunications and information and communications technology and services sectors from China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia or Venezuela.
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices Jan. 25:
The Commerce Department on Jan. 25 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 April 1 through June 30, 2020. The agency again found that only Canada is providing subsidies, in the form of export assistance.
The details of the United Arab Emirates aluminum quotas will be published on Jan. 25. They will allow 26,467,182 kilograms of wrought aluminum and castings and forgings to enter -- the wrought aluminum under headings 7604, 7605, 7606, 7607, 7608 or 7609; the castings and forgings under 7616.99.51. The quotas also will allow 149,482,620 kilograms of unwrought aluminum under subheading 7061.10, and 454,050,450 kilograms of alloyed unwrought aluminum under subheading 7601.20. Aluminum imports from UAE will not be subject to the 10% tariff under Section 232, since the country agreed to using quotas as an export restraint.
In a cost analysis of a rule that would provide for Commerce review of transactions for a wide variety of products in the telecommunications and information and communications technology and services (ICTS) supply chains, the Commerce Department estimated that 4.5 million firms import “significant amounts of goods and services” that could be subject to review, with nearly all of those small and mid-sized firms.
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices Jan. 14: