Dan DiMicco: More Distorted Thinking on Trade

More wrong-headed rhetoric on trade deals to nowhere! [From the blog of Dan DiMicco  |  Dan DiMicoo  |  January 8, 2015] Every past deal has been a failure as we are terrible negotiators and even worse enforcers of the penalties for cheating and circumvention by the other signers. They use non-tariff barriers to replace their…

King & Spalding: U.S. Department of Commerce Initiates Investigations on Melamine from China and Trinidad and Tobago

On December 3, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced the initiation of antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on melamine from the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. [Reposted from the King & Spalding blog  |  Erienne Kilgore & Joshua Snead  |  January 6, 2015] The petitions were filed on November…

Dan DiMicco: Dollar Surges to 11 ½-Year High Against Biggest Rivals

http://www.wsj.com/articles/dollar-surges-to-11-year-against-biggest-rivals-1420221525 The dollar kicked off 2015 by rallying against other major currencies, underscoring heightened expectations for robust U.S. growth in the new year relative to the rest of the world…..or trouble for the economy……. [Reposted from the blog of Dan DiMicco  |  Dan DiMicco  |  Jan 6, 2015] The article correctly points out the negative…

King & Spalding: Customs and Border Protection Issues Update of Enforcement Activities Related to Trade Orders

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued its first “AD/CVD Update” in December 2014. The AD/CVD Update provides information regarding CBP’s activities to collect antidumping (AD) and countervailing duties (CVD) from U.S. importers that attempt to evade their payment. [Reposted from the King & Spalding blog  |  P. Lee Smith  |  January 6, 2015]  CBP’s…