According to the ITA, it will instruct CBP to assess AD duties, as indicated above, on all appropriate entries.

(a) For previously reviewed or investigated companies not listed above, the AD cash deposit rate will continue to be the company-specific rate published for the most recent period.

The International Trade Administration (ITA) has initiated antidumping (AD) duty investigations of chlorinated isocyanurates (chlorinated isos) from China and Spain.

The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued its preliminary results of the antidumping (AD) duty changed circumstances review of automotive replacement glass windshields from China.

As of May 27, 2004, seventy-one trade associations from thirty-eight countries had endorsed a letter urging the World Trade Organization (WTO) to: (1) extend the deadline for the implementation of the final stage of textile and apparel quota phase-out to December 31, 2007; and (2) convene an emergency session to discuss this proposal not later than July 1, 2004.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site its Performance and Annual Report Fiscal Year 2003, which covers federal fiscal year (FY) 2003 (October 1, 2002 - September 30, 2003) with discussion of some subsequent events.

On June 9, 2004, the Secretary of Homeland Security testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on progress at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Among other things, the Secretary testified that DHS has created several new two-way channels of communication, including the National Infrastructure Coordination Center (NICC). According to the Secretary, NICC provides a centralized mechanism for the private sector, industry representatives, individual companies, and the Information Sharing and Analysis Centers to share and receive situational information about a threat, event, or crisis. (DHS Secretary testimony, dated 06/09/04, http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/display?content=3708.)

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued messages on a number of antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) duty actions, many of which (marked by an * in the action column) were previously published in the Federal Register by the International Trade Administration (ITA) and summarized in International Trade Today.

The International Trade Administration (ITA) has initiated and issued its preliminary results of an antidumping (AD) duty changed circumstances review of canned pineapple fruit from Thailand.

Travel Warnings are issued when the State Department decides, based on all relevant information, to recommend that Americans avoid travel to a certain country. The following have been issued since BP's most recent update: