EU Adds Tariffs on US Products Due to Byrd Amendment Distributions
The European Union will require additional customs duties on U.S. sweetcorn, women's trousers, crane lorries and metal glasses frames in response to Byrd amendment collections, the European Commission said in a notice published in the Official Journal on April 24. "As a result of the United States' failure to bring the Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act (CDSOA) in compliance with its obligations under the World Trade Organization (WTO) agreements," the EC imposed an additional 0.3 percent duty on those products. CBP continues to distribute antidumping and countervailing duties under CDSOA even though that law has been repealed.
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The duties apply to Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) subheadings 0710.40.00 (Sweetcorn), 6204.62.31 (Women's or girl's trousers and breeches, other than industrial and occupational, of denim cotton), 8705.10.00 (Crane lorries) and 9003.19.00 (Frames and mountings for spectacles, goggles or the like, of base metal). "In conformity with the WTO authorisation to suspend the application of concessions to the United States, the Commission is to adjust the level of suspension annually to the level of nullification or impairment caused by the CDSOA to the European Union at that time," it said.