Washington Tariff & Trade Letter provides exclusive, behind-the-scenes news and analysis every week of U.S. trade policies, regulations and legislation, export controls, trade sanctions, and enforcement of antidumping and countervailing duty laws.
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In This Week's Issue
Democrats Urge USTR to Restart WTO Environmental Agreement
Consider it a four-year lunch break. A group of congressional Democrats April 7 introduced a resolution (H.Res.295) to direct the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to...
Iran Deal Partners Agree to Keep Talking
No one threw a shoe, and no knives were drawn. Participants in the Joint Commission on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), or the Iran nuclear deal, agreed to keep...
CIT Knocks Down Section 232 Tariffs on Derivative Products
A Court of International Trade (CIT) panel April 5 knocked down the former president’s January 2020 order increasing Section 232 tariffs on “certain derivative” steel imports by...
Industry Argues for Smarter, Targeted Export Controls
While responses to the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) request for comments on President Biden’s recent executive orders on U.S. supply chains varied widely, many...
Briefs: Trade Figures, Burma, Entity List
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