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Tin-mill steel imports from China, Canada and Germany are not harming U.S. industry, the U.S. International Trade Commission has found, foreclosing the possibility of new duties sought by domestic producers. The ITC on Tuesday made negative determinations in the final phase of its antidumping and countervailing duty investigations into tin-mill imports from the three countries, according to a statement issued by the commission. The commissioners also voted to terminate an antidumping investigation into tin-mill imports from South Korea, the commission...

House Ways & Means Committee Chair Jason Smith (R-MO) has asked the U.S. International Trade Commission to look into the global competitiveness of the domestic rice industry amid concerns unfair trade practices are hurting U.S. exporters. In a Feb. 5 letter to ITC Chair David Johanson, Smith requested the agency probe the latest developments in major producer markets – India, China, Vietnam and Thailand, among others – for the 2018-23 period and their impact on U.S. exports, as well as...

The Commerce Department and the U.S. International Trade Commission have upheld prior determinations that Moroccan fertilizer producers have benefitted from unfair trade practices and caused injury to the U.S. fertilizer industry, according to a pair of remand decisions published in recent days. In a case appealing Commerce’s final determination last September, the Court of International Trade found the department had erred in its subsidy rate calculations for phosphate-based fertilizer imports from Morocco and directed both Commerce and the ITC to...

Tin-mill steel imports from Canada, China, Germany and South Korea have benefitted from unfair pricing, the Commerce Department said on Friday, announcing final antidumping duty rates as well as its determination that Chinese imports are being unfairly subsidized. Ohio-based steel producer Cleveland-Cliffs and United Steelworkers filed a petition last year seeking antidumping duties on imports of tin-mill steel, which is used to make cans, from Canada, China, Germany, South Korea, the Netherlands, Taiwan, Turkey and the United Kingdom. The petitioners...

A major glass producer and the United Steelworkers are calling on the U.S. International Trade Commission and the Commerce Department to impose steep antidumping and countervailing duties on glass wine bottles from China, Mexico and Chile. In a petition filed late last month, the U.S. Glass Producers Coalition charges that glass wine bottle imports from the three countries are being unfairly priced and, further, that bottles imported from China are benefitting from subsidies. The coalition, composed of Ardagh Glass Inc...

The U.S. International Trade Commission should consider input from farmers and agricultural retailers as it develops a decision on Moroccan fertilizer duties, a group of House and Senate lawmakers said on Tuesday. Fifty-eight agricultural organizations wrote to ITC Chair David Johanson last week to call for permanently lower duties on fertilizer imports from Morocco. The ITC is reconsidering the duties after the Court of International Trade ruled the rate applied in 2021 was based on flawed calculations. Lawyers for Mosaic,...

Steel and aluminum industry representatives say they are keen to provide product-specific emissions data to the U.S. International Trade Commissions to help inform potential trade measures to drive industrial decarbonization. The commission in July launched a study on greenhouse gas emissions following a request by U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai to collect product-specific data she said would be needed to implement a Global Arrangement on Sustainable Steel and Aluminum under negotiation with the EU. During a multi-panel, daylong public hearing...

More than 50 agriculture organizations are pressing for more predictability in fertilizer supply chains and permanently lower duties on fertilizer imports from Morocco as the Commerce Department and the U.S. International Trade Commission consider further administrative action. In a Dec. 7 letter to ITC Chair David Johanson, 58 agriculture groups, including the National Corn Growers Association, the American Farm Bureau Federation, the American Soybean Association and the International Fresh Produce Association, urged more stability in supply chains and lasting tariff...