The Consumer Product Safety Commission has changed the time of its March 31, 2010 open meeting in which it will vote on the proposed rule on the definition of children's products under the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008. The meeting will now begin at 4:00 pm instead of 9:00 am. (CPSC notice dated 03/31/10, available at http://www.cpsc.gov/calendarmast.html)
At the March 19, 2010 meeting of the World Trade Organization's Dispute Settlement Body, the U.S. formally announced its intent to implement the rulings and recommendations of the panel in the dispute, "U.S. - Anti-dumping measures on polyethylene retail carrier bags from Thailand (DS383) on U.S. "zeroing."
"Daily Update on Capitol Hill Trade Actions" is a daily International Trade Today compilation of the most relevant legislation, hearings, and actions by Congress involving international trade. The following are brief summaries of recent Capitol Hill actions:
On March 24, 2010, 74 companies and 37 trade association wrote the leadership of the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance Committees to express their support for the preservation of the First Sale Rule, which allows U.S. importers to value imported merchandise using the "first sale" in a series of transactions as the basis for determining duties on products that come into the U.S.
The International Trade Administration has issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review of certain frozen warmwater shrimp from Thailand for the period of February 1, 2008 through January 31, 20091.
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has published a notice announcing the availability of 2009 full calendar year import statistics relating to the Generalized System of Preferences competitive needs limitations (CNLs) for the 2009 GSP Annual Review.
The International Trade Administration and the International Trade Commission have each issued notices initiating five-year Sunset Reviews of the antidumping duty orders on magnesium metal from China and Russia.
The following determinations of the Court of International Trade and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in the first half of February 2010 involved antidumping or countervailing duty law.
In the February 17, 2010 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (Vol. 44, No. 8), CBP published a notice revoking two rulings and revoking a treatment as follows:
In the February 10, 2010 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (Vol. 44, No. 7), CBP published a notice revoking a ruling and treatment as follows: