The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for May 1:
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for April 30:
The Aluminum Association, the largest trade group for the aluminum industry, asked President Donald Trump to grant permanent exemptions to the European Union, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Australia and Argentina -- and said those agreements should not be used to create quotas for aluminum exports. The trade group sent a letter on April 24 noting that 97 percent of aluminum industry jobs are in mid- and downstream production, and most rely on at least some imported aluminum. "Quotas would paradoxically cause imports of semi-fabricated products from China to be more competitive in the U.S. market, as manufacturers scramble to find metal," the letter said.
The U.S.-Canada Regulatory Cooperation Council scheduled its 2018 Stakeholder event for June 4-5 in Washington, the Commerce Department's International Trade Administration said in an email. "This event will bring together senior regulatory officials, industry, and other members of the public on both sides of the border to provide progress reports on existing RCC work plans and to discuss new opportunities for regulatory cooperation," Commerce said. "The RCC supports a practical, working level approach to cooperation that aims to remove unnecessary and duplicative requirements, and reduce costs for businesses and consumers." Commerce will send out registration information and other details at a later date, it said.
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for April 24:
The Commerce Department issued its quarterly update to its annual list of foreign government subsidies on articles of cheese subject to an in-quota rate of duty that were imported during the period Oct. 1 through Dec. 31, 2017. 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 for April 23:
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for April 18:
The Bureau of Industry and Security denied for seven years the export privileges of Zhongxing Telecommunications Equipment Corporation, of Shenzhen, China and ZTE Kangxun Telecommunications Ltd. of Hi-New Shenzen, China (ZTE). The companies had previously agreed to a combined civil and criminal penalty and forfeiture of $1.19 billion and a seven-year suspended denial, because of its sales of telecom equipment to Iran and North Korea, and misleading the U.S. government about those sales. The denial, announced April 16, is because ZTE paid bonuses to employees involved in the sales and did not reprimand them, as they had claimed they were doing. The order says that "BIS is left to conclude that if the $892 million monetary penalty paid pursuant to the March 23, 2017 order, criminal plea agreement, and settlement agreement with the Department of the Treasury did not induce ZTE to ensure it was engaging with the U.S. government truthfully, an additional monetary penalty of up to roughly a third that amount ($300 million) is unlikely to lead to the company's reform."
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for April 10: