Tai asks ITC for broad study of U.S., Canadian and Mexican foreign trade zones

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has asked the U.S. International Trade Commission to conduct a comprehensive study of North American foreign trade zones a year after advocates lost a battle to keep language that bans goods in FTZs from receiving duty-free treatment out of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement. In a Dec. 14 letter to ITC Chair Jason Kearns, USTR Katherine Tai asks the commission to undertake the fact-finding review under Section 332(g) of the Tariff Act of 1930. She...