The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notice for Oct. 8:
The Bureau of Industry and Security released a temporary final rule Oct. 8 detailing procedures for importers to apply for exemptions from recently tightened Section 232 quotas on Brazilian steel. As announced in a presidential proclamation issued at the end of August (see 2008310010), the exemptions are available where the decreased quota would disrupt U.S. production activities under contracts entered into prior to Aug. 28, 2020. The exemptions are only available for steel shipped to the U.S. prior to Dec. 31, 2020, and the overall relief is limited to a total of 60,000,000 kilograms of steel. The temporary file rule takes effect Oct. 13, its scheduled date of publication in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department seeks public comments on any subsidies, including stumpage, paid by certain countries that exported softwood lumber to the U.S. Jan. 1 to June 30, it said in a notice released Oct. 7. The Softwood Lumber Act of 2008 requires Commerce to submit a report every 180 days on any subsidy provided by nations exporting softwood lumber or softwood products to the U.S., including subsidies for stumpage. Commerce is seeking input on subsidies paid by countries whose exports composed at least 1% of total U.S. softwood imports by quantity, as classified under tariff schedule subheadings 4407.10.01, 4407.11.00, 4407.12.00, 4407.19.05, 4407.19.06 and 4407.19.10, the agency said. International Trade Commission Tariff and Trade DataWeb information indicates that four countries -- Brazil, Canada, Germany and Sweden -- exported that much softwood lumber to the U.S. during that six-month period. Comments are due Nov. 9.
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notice for Oct. 6:
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notice for Oct. 2:
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notice for Sept. 30:
A Commerce Department final rule on “Procedures to Grant Relief from the Quantitative Limitation Applicable to Certain Steel Articles for Brazil for Parties with Preexisting Contracts that Meet Specified Criteria” was received by the Office of Management and Budget Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs on Sept. 22, according to an OIRA notice. The rule seems likely to involve the recently announced plans to cut quotas on Brazilian steel (see 2008310010).
The Commerce Department is reopening the period for comments on its Section 232 investigation into potential tariffs or other import restrictions on vanadium, it said in a notice released Sept. 24. The agency will now accept comments for an additional 14 days, until Oct. 9. The comment period had originally run until July 20 (rebuttals were due Aug. 17) (see 2006020041). The investigation was requested in November 2019 by two domestic producers, AMG Vanadium and U.S. Vanadium.
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notice for Sept. 24:
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notice for Sept. 18: