The World Trade Organization recently posted the following notices:
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:
On Sept. 16 the Foreign Agricultural Service posted the following GAIN reports:
The International Trade Commission published notice in the Sept. 16 Federal Register on the following AD/CV injury, Section 337 patent and other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on solid fertilizer grade ammonium nitrate from Russia (A-821-811) (here). Commerce determined JSC Acron and its affiliate JSC Dorogobuzh did not undersell subject merchandise during the period of review, assigning the company a zero percent AD duty rate. Subject merchandise from Acron entered between April 1, 2014, and March 31, 2015, will be liquidated without any assessment of AD duties.
President Barack Obama met with a group of business and political leaders Sept. 15 to strategize how to effectively spread their message of support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership and ensure a congressional vote on the pact this year. During a same-day White House press conference, Ohio Gov. John Kasich said that the TPP would help secure U.S. leadership among world powers marked by a repressive China and an unpredictable Russia, and Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed said that it would help boost U.S. manufacturing interests in communities across the U.S. Kasich said that while trade brings economic benefits, it also inevitably hurts some workers. That’s why the U.S. should pursue good trade adjustment programs and streamline all levels of U.S. education for innovation, he said.
Cuba Democracy Advocates Executive Director Mauricio Claver-Carone on Sept. 14 agreed to help Rep. Rick Crawford, R-Ark., move forward his bill proposing credit financing for U.S. agricultural exports to Cuba, working to ensure that it wouldn’t directly benefit the Castro administration or weaken democracy in the island nation. Arguments abounded both in support of and in opposition to opening up U.S. financing to promote exports to Cuba during a full House Agriculture Committee meeting that same day. One key member, House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Collin Peterson, said the potential benefits of a bill to finance exports to Cuba would be limited for the short term at least, highlighting that Cuba is a small country that houses citizens who earn low incomes, and that embassies constitute much of the demand driving agricultural imports to the island, as opposed to the Cuban people at large.
On Sept. 12 the Foreign Agricultural Service posted the following GAIN reports:
The International Trade Commission published notice in the Sept. 12 Federal Register on the following AD/CV injury, Section 337 patent and other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department is set to impose permanent antidumping duty orders on cold-rolled steel flat products from Brazil, India, South Korea and the United Kingdom, as well as countervailing duty orders on cold-rolled steel from Brazil, India and South Korea, after the International Trade Commission on Sept. 2 voted that dumped and illegally subsidized imports from the countries are injuring U.S. industry (here). However, the ITC ended AD/CV duties on cold-rolled steel from Russia, unanimously finding imports from the country were negligible. Commerce issued its final determinations of AD/CV duty rates in July (see 1607280035 and 1607280032).
On Sept. 7 the Foreign Agricultural Service posted the following GAIN reports: