On April 24, 2025, Ferroglobe USA Inc. and Mississippi Silicon Inc., domestic producers of silicon metal, filed a petition with the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) seeking...more
On February 26, 2025, domestic producers filed petitions with the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), seeking antidumping (AD) duties on imports of certain chassis and...more
On December 18, 2024, the American Active Anode Material Producers, an ad hoc trade association of domestic manufacturers, filed petitions with the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) and the U.S. International Trade Commission...more
On September 5, 2024, domestic producers of corrosion-resistant (CORE) steel products and a union filed petitions with the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) seeking the...more
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On October 4, 2023, domestic producers filed petitions with the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), seeking antidumping (AD) duties on imports of aluminum...more
On July 28, 2023, a coalition of domestic producers and wholesalers of mattresses filed petitions with the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) seeking the imposition of...more
In October 2021, the European Union and the United States launched negotiations for a Global Arrangement on Sustainable Steel and Aluminum, or GASSA, which would link import restraints to exporting countries' efforts to...more
On May 30, 2023, a domestic producer of paper shopping bags and a union filed a petition with the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) seeking the imposition of antidumping (AD)...more
On April 26, 2023, a domestic producer of steel cylinders filed a petition with the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) seeking the imposition of antidumping (AD) and...more
On April 27, 2023, a coalition of domestic producers of brass rod filed a petition with the United States Department of Commerce (DOC) and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) seeking the imposition of antidumping...more
On April 25, 2023, a domestic producer of boltless steel shelving filed a petition with the United States Department of Commerce (DOC) and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) seeking the imposition of antidumping...more
On January 18, 2022, domestic producers filed petitions with the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), seeking antidumping (AD) duties on imports of certain tin mill products...more
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U.S. producers filed a new petition on paper file folders from China, India and Vietnam that could subject those products to AD/CVD duties. In 2021, China, India and Vietnam accounted for nearly half of the...more
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U.S. producers filed a new petition on freight rail couplers from China and Mexico that could subject those products to antidumping and countervailing duties.
In 2021, China and Mexico made up a combined...more
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On September 20, Commerce published in the Federal Register updated regulations affecting its administration of new shipper reviews, scope inquiries and circumvention inquiries.
The new regulations go...more
On June 30, 2021, domestic producers filed a petition with the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), seeking antidumping (AD) duties on imports of Acrylonitrile-Butadiene Rubber...more
On April 21, 2021, domestic producers filed petitions with the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), seeking antidumping (AD) duties on imports of natural honey from Argentina,...more
- In Presidential Proclamation 10060, announced on August 6, 2020, President Trump reinstated a 10 percent ad valorem tariff on imports of non-alloyed unwrought aluminum from Canada under the Section 232 of the Trade...more
8/17/2020
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Over the past several months, softening demand and declining prices have wreaked havoc on domestic crude oil producers. Members of Congress and industry participants have pleaded with the Trump administration for relief,...more
Last week, in a highly anticipated decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Federal Circuit) concluded that Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 does not offend the non-delegation doctrine. To...more
- President Trump issued Presidential Proclamation 9980 on January 24, 2020, expanding the product scope of existing tariffs imposed under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 on certain articles of aluminum and...more
2/10/2020
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Federal Circuit) rarely sits en banc to address international trade issues that fall within its subject matter jurisdiction. It last did so nearly five years ago in Suprema,...more
• The USTR will consider a second list of products, totaling $4 billion in imports, to include in its proposed duties of up to 100 percent ad valorem on EU imports.
• The additional list covers 89 separate 8-digit HTSUS...more
7/5/2019
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• Following a setback in U.S.-China trade negotiations, the USTR has increased the Section 301 List 3 additional duty rate on $200 billion of Chinese-origin products from 10% to 25% (the rate already in effect for $50 billion...more
5/14/2019
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• USTR has proposed to impose additional duties of up to 100 percent ad valorem on $21 billion of imports from EU member states as a result of a dispute concerning aircraft subsidies.
• The proposed duties would apply to...more
4/12/2019
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