Congress can't let the U.S. become dependent on foreign countries for steel, Congressional Steel Caucus Chairman Tim Murphy, R-Pa., said in written testimony for the caucus’ annual “State of Steel” hearing April 14 (here). To help make sure the World Trade Organization does not designate China as a market economy as long as the country’s market remains subsidized and “non-market,” the caucus on April 14 sent letters to the Obama Administration and the EU, Murphy said.
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:
In recent editions of the Official Journal of the European Union the following trade-related notices were posted (here):
On April 11 the Foreign Agricultural Service posted the following GAIN reports:
A group of three U.S. manufacturers on April 8 filed a complaint with the Commerce Department and International Trade Commission requesting new antidumping duties on carbon and alloy steel cut-to-length plate from Austria, Belgium, Brazil, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, South Africa, Taiwan, and Turkey, and countervailing duties on cut-to-length plate from Brazil, China and South Korea.
On March 30 the Foreign Agricultural Service posted the following GAIN reports:
The Commerce Department is giving advance notice that next month it will consider revoking the antidumping duty order on hot-rolled carbon steel flat products from Russia (A-821-809) in an automatic five-year sunset review scheduled to begin in May (here). Advance notice is given because sunset reviews have short deadlines. An order will be revoked unless Commerce finds that revocation would lead to a continuation or recurrence of dumping and the International Trade Commission finds that revocation would result in continuation or recurrence of material injury to a U.S. industry. As a result, a negative determination by either Commerce or the ITC would result in the revocation of this order.
The Office of Foreign Assets Control on March 29 will end the Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) Agreement, which blocked Russian government property related to disposition of HEU extracted from nuclear weapons, OFAC said (here). The agency took the action because the national emergency on which the regulations were based has been canceled, it said. President Barack Obama on May 26 terminated a 2012 renewal of a 2000 executive order that activated the national emergency, which stated that Russia’s possession of a “large volume” of weapons-usable fissile material threatened U.S. national security and foreign policy. The HEU Agreements had been implemented successfully, allowing the discontinuation, OFAC said.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the March 23 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):
In recent editions of the Official Journal of the European Union the following trade-related notices were posted (here):
The government of Canada recently issued the following trade-related notices for March 21 (note that some may also be given separate headlines):