A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's website Sept. 21, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at http://addcvd.cbp.gov. (CBP occasionally adds backdated messages without otherwise indicating which message was added. ITT will include a message date in parentheses in such cases.)
Russia export controls and sanctions
The use of export controls and sanctions on Russia has surged since the country's invasion of Crimea in 2014, and especially its invasion of Ukraine in in February 2022. Similar export controls and sanctions have been imposed by U.S. allies, including the EU, U.K. and Japan. The following is a listing of recent articles in Export Compliance Daily on export controls and sanctions imposed on Russia:
The Animal Welfare Institute and Compassion in World Farming urged Russia to suspend imports of cattle by sea from the U.S., following a September incident in which more than 1,000 out of 3,400 breeding dairy cattle from one U.S. shipment died en route to Russia or had to be euthanized upon arrival, they said. Initial reports indicate the incident may have been caused by a breakdown in manure removal and ventilation systems on the vessel transporting the cattle, they said. In a letter to Nikolai Fyodorov, Russian Minister of Agriculture, AWI President Cathy Liss said, "We fear further animal suffering and loss of life if strong action is not taken."
Business groups voiced disappointment at the lack of action on granting Russia Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) and pushed lawmakers to take up legislation. “American businesses are now at a disadvantage vis-à-vis our competitors worldwide because Congress and the White House haven’t yet put in place PNTR with the world’s 9th largest economy, Russia,” said Business Roundtable President John Engler. “Russia PNTR is one of the only opportunities still this year to increase U.S. exports, support American jobs and grow the economy, and Congress and the White House should take immediate action to approve PNTR when members return later this fall." There is "strong bipartisan support for PNTR, as was evidenced by unanimous and near-unanimous votes in the Senate Finance Committee and House Ways and Means Committee,” he said. The statement is (here).
Members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation adopted a list of environmental goods for which tariffs will be cut to five percent or less by 2015 in their joint declaration issued Sept. 9. The list of 54 products includes bamboo flooring; wind turbine blades; solar water heaters; solar cells; and equipment for air pollution reduction and wastewater treatment. Tariffs on these goods range from 20 to 35 percent in some APEC countries, USTR said. APEC members had pledged to cut the tariffs in November 2011.
In the Sept. 15-17, 2012 editions of the Official Journal of the European Union, the following trade-related notices were posted:
The Food Safety and Inspection Service revised export requirements and plant lists for the following countries for Sept. 7-13.
Granting Russia Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) status and repealing the Jackson-Vanick amendment, which limits trade with communist countries, is being held up by "presidential politics at this point," said Rep. Peter Roskam (R-Ill.), speaking at the National Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association (NCBFAA) Government Affairs conference Sept. 11. Roskam, who sits on the House Ways and Means Committee, expects "that it will get done," but every day "we wait is a day that American companies are disadvantaged as they are pursuing the Russian marketplace," he said.
On Sept. 10 the Foreign Agricultural Service issued the following GAIN reports:
The leaders of the U.S., Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam are committed to finalizing a “comprehensive, next-generation regional agreement that liberalizes and promotes trade and investment” and addresses new and traditional trade issues, they said in a statement issued Sept. 9 in Vladivostok, Russia. The current round of talks on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is taking place until Sept. 15 in Leesburg, Va. The parties, which now also include Mexico and Canada, have told negotiators to find pragmatic, creative, flexible and mutually-acceptable solutions to the remaining unresolved issues, they said.
The Food Safety and Inspection Service revised export requirements and plant lists for the following countries for Aug. 31 - Sept. 6.