Trade and Manufacturing Monitor https://www.kelleydrye.com/viewpoints/blogs/trade-and-manufacturing-monitor News and insight from our international trade practice group Wed, 01 May 2024 18:18:24 -0400 60 hourly 1 Commissioner Kieff Announces Departure from ITC https://www.kelleydrye.com/viewpoints/blogs/trade-and-manufacturing-monitor/commissioner-kieff-announces-departure-from-itc https://www.kelleydrye.com/viewpoints/blogs/trade-and-manufacturing-monitor/commissioner-kieff-announces-departure-from-itc Wed, 14 Jun 2017 16:15:13 -0400 Commissioner F. Scott Kieff has announced that he will leave the ITC at the end of this month to return to his positions at the George Washington University School of Law and Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. Commissioner Kieff’s last day at the ITC will be June 30, 2017. Kieff has served as an ITC Commissioner since 2013, and his term was set to expire on June 16, 2020. As a result of Commissioner Kieff’s department from the ITC, two of the six Commissioner seats will be vacant. The President has yet to announce any nominations for the vacant positions.

Prior to assuming his role as an ITC Commissioner, Kieff held positions as a professor at the George Washington University School of Law and the Ray & Louise Knowles Senior Fellow at the Stanford University Hoover Institution. According to his bio, Commissioner Kieff’s research, teaching, practice, and consulting work focused on the law, economics, and politics of innovation, including entrepreneurship, corporate governance, finance, economic development, trade, intellectual property, antitrust, bankruptcy, medical ethics, technology policy, and health policy.

]]> ITC Votes Unanimously to Continue Investigations on Cold-Drawn Mechanical Tubing from Six Countries https://www.kelleydrye.com/viewpoints/blogs/trade-and-manufacturing-monitor/itc-votes-unanimously-to-continue-investigations-on-cold-drawn-mechanical-tubing-from-six-countries https://www.kelleydrye.com/viewpoints/blogs/trade-and-manufacturing-monitor/itc-votes-unanimously-to-continue-investigations-on-cold-drawn-mechanical-tubing-from-six-countries Tue, 13 Jun 2017 09:56:59 -0400 On June 2nd, the International Trade Commission (“ITC”) voted to continue the antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on cold-drawn mechanical tubing from China, Germany, India, Italy, Korea, and Switzerland. The ITC’s preliminary vote finding a reasonable indication that the domestic industry is material injured by reason of imports from the six countries was unanimous. As a result of the affirmative preliminary injury finding, the Commerce Department will continue its respective investigations to determine whether cold-drawn mechanical tubing from each of the six countries is being unfairly subsidized and/or sold at less than fair value. The petitions for trade relief, filed on April 19th, allege margins of dumping that range from the double digits to the triple digits for certain countries, including China, Germany, and Switzerland. The countervailing duty petitions for China and India identify numerous subsidy programs including, for example, export loans, credit and insurance at preferential rates, preferential tax treatment, and government grants. The ITC and Commerce Department are expected to issue their final determinations by or before early next year.

Cold-drawn mechanical tubing is a tubular product that is used by a number of industries, including for automotive, agricultural, industrial, and oil and gas applications. Kelley Drye & Warren LLP represents the domestic petitioning industry in this case, which includes ArcelorMittal Tubular Products, Michigan Seamless Tube, LLC, Plymouth Tube Co. USA, PTC Alliance Corp., Webco Industries, Inc., and Zekelman Industries.

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