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Rice producers are hoping a forthcoming report on U.S. competitiveness in global rice markets will equip policymakers with the information needed to challenge Indian subsidies at the World Trade Organization and spur new market-access negotiations abroad, an industry representative tells Inside U.S. Trade . Karah Janevicius, director of international trade policy at USA Rice Federation, an industry group serving members across the U.S. rice industry, said the industry is hoping the benefits of the U.S. International Trade Commission report for...

The United Steelworkers union is backing an effort by domestic solar manufacturers to obtain antidumping and countervailing duties on solar products from four Southeast Asian countries, saying it wants to ensure U.S. workers are involved at all levels of the solar supply chain. In an Aug. 27 letter to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and U.S. International Trade Commission Chair Amy Karpel, USW President David McCall expressed the group’s “strong support” for the AD/CVD investigations into crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells and...

The U.S. International Trade Commission is recommending that the president impose a tariff-rate quota on imports of fine denier polyester staple fiber to address what the commissioners have determined is “serious injury” incurred by domestic industry from imports. The ITC’s four commissioners all recommended a tariff-rate quota over a four-year period on imports of the synthetic material, among other remedies, following a global safeguards probe initiated earlier this year, according to statements by the commissioners issued on Tuesday. Fine denier...

New tariffs on herbicides would place additional financial burdens on U.S. agricultural producers as the industry grapples with rising costs and tighter profit margins, a group of mostly Republican House and Senate lawmakers told the Commerce Department on Monday. Commerce and the U.S. International Trade Commission are investigating anti-dumping and countervailing duty cases against imports of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) from China and India, a primary ingredient in herbicides used by farmers across the U.S. In May, the ITC ruled in...

Proposed antidumping and countervailing duty rates on imports of aluminum printing plates from China and Japan are “excessive” and would contribute to further newspaper closures, a media industry group has told officials. In an Aug. 2 letter to the U.S. International Trade Commission chair and commissioners, the News/Media Alliance, a trade association representing more than 2,000 organizations across North America, said the proposed new duties threaten industry jobs across the country and could hasten the decline of the U.S. news...

A new Supreme Court ruling overturning a long-held deference to the actions of federal agencies is unlikely to significantly affect trade-related agencies in the near term, analysts tell Inside U.S. Trade , though there are areas in which trade law could see longer-term shifts. Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, a landmark Supreme Court decision that came out late last month, overturned Chevron U.S.A. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, which had directed the courts to defer to an agency’s reasonable interpretation...

ST. PAUL, MN -- U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai has made it a point to travel as much domestically as she does internationally, an effort that is not only about hearing directly from domestic stakeholders -- such as farmers or businesses -- but also one that pays off during her high-level talks abroad, she told Inside U.S. Trade this week. Tai was here in St. Paul, MN, on Monday and Tuesday primarily in her role as co-chair of White...

House Republican appropriators on Tuesday proposed across-the-board cuts to key trade agencies, including the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the U.S. International Trade Commission and the Commerce Department. The “ Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Act ” was published by House Appropriations Committee Republicans and is set for a subcommittee markup on Wednesday. The CJS spending bill would provide $53 million for USTR, along with $15 million for the Trade Enforcement Trust Fund, according to the fact...