On March 16 the Foreign Agricultural Service posted the following GAIN reports:
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 March 15 the Foreign Agricultural Service posted the following GAIN reports:
On March 8 the Foreign Agricultural Service posted the following GAIN reports:
The Commerce Department made preliminary affirmative antidumping duty determination that cold-rolled steel flat products from Russia (A-421-822) (here) are being sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. Having found "critical circumstances" for all Russian exporters, the agency will impose retroactive AD duty cash requirements on entries of subject merchandise beginning on Dec. 9.
The Commerce Department made preliminary affirmative antidumping duty determinations that cold-rolled steel flat products from China (A-570-029) (here), India (A-533-865) (here), Brazil (A-351-843) (here), Japan (A-588-873) (here), South Korea (A-580-881) (here) and the United Kingdom (A-412-824) (here) are being sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. The agency will impose AD duty cash requirements on entries of subject merchandise beginning on March 7, except for some companies from Japan and all countries from China that will face retroactive AD duty cash deposit requirements beginning Dec. 8, 2015.
On March 3 the Foreign Agricultural Service posted the following GAIN reports:
The Commerce Department will require antidumping duty cash deposits on imports of cold rolled steel flat products from Brazil, China, India, Japan, South Korea, Russia and the United Kingdom, it said in a March 1 fact sheet (here). The agency set AD duty cash deposit rates at 38.93% for all Brazilian exporters, 265.79% for all Chinese exporters, 6.78% for all Indian exporters, 71.35% for all Japanese exporters, a range of 2.17% to 6.85% for South Korean exporters, 12.62% to 16.89 for Russian exporters and 5.79% to 31.39% for UK exporters, in its preliminary determination. The cash deposit requirements will take effect on the date Commerce publishes its preliminary determination in the Federal Register, except for certain exporters from China, Japan and Russia subject to retroactive suspension of liquidation.
The U.S. needs to "to take all actions necessary" to address a recent spike in the number of counterfeit footwear products, the Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America said to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative as part of the agency's Special 301 Subcommittee hearing on March 1. The brands and products of the FDRA's member companies "support thousands of American jobs -- jobs that are put at risk by counterfeiting and piracy,” said the group's president Matthew Priest in a news release. “Seizures of counterfeit footwear increased by 356% during the latest three-year reporting period, and footwear went from being the twelfth most-seized product for IP violations in the world to the sixth -- a stunning increase over a three year period.” The USTR each year identifies "countries that deny adequate and effective protection of intellectual property protection," and recently received written stakeholder comments on the issue.
On March 1 the Foreign Agricultural Service posted the following GAIN reports:
The government of Canada recently issued the following trade-related notices for Feb. 29 (note that some may also be given separate headlines):