CapTrade Authors Reports on Gulf Airlines’ Subsidies
On August 24, 2015, The Partnership for Open and Fair Skies released Response to the Gulf Airlines’ Comments on Subsidies Valuations a follow-up to the January 25, 2015 report Evidence of Actionable...
View ArticleU.S. Trade Picture in 2015–Improvements in Petroleum Mask Weakness Elsewhere
Growing U.S. oil and gas production and lower oil prices have reshaped U.S. petroleum trade. Although the United States still runs a deficit, the average monthly trade deficit through August 2015 is...
View ArticleReviewing the 2015 Trade Numbers
Full-year 2015 trade data from the United States International Trade Commission are now available. To celebrate, we review some of the most important big-picture developments in U.S. trade from the...
View ArticleThree Reasons Why the U.S. Should Care About Brexit
Authors: Chi Kim and Laura Delgado.The referendum for the British exit from the European Union (EU), or ‘Brexit’, was passed on June 23, 2016. Reactions to Brexit underlined a great deal of uncertainty...
View ArticleHow the Proposed Border Adjustment Tax Would Affect Dumping Margins
by Andrew Szamosszegi, Charles Anderson, and Travis Pope This post is the first in a two-part series on the effect of the proposed Border Adjustment Tax on trade remedy investigations in the United...
View ArticleHow the Proposed BAT Would Affect USITC Investigations
by Andrew Szamosszegi, Charles Anderson, and Travis Pope In a recent post, we explored the impact of a proposed Border Adjustment Tax on the dumping margin calculated by the Department of Commerce in...
View ArticleCanada Requests Consultations with the U.S. at the WTO
On January 10th Canada circulated to World Trade Organization (WTO) members its Request for Consultations with the United States regarding “Certain Systemic Trade Remedies Measures.”[1] A request for...
View ArticleNew Petitions and Complaints Filed at the USITC
Under Title VII of the Tariff Act of 1930, U.S. industries may petition the United States International Trade Commission (USITC) and the United States Department of Commerce (DOC) for relief from...
View ArticleUSTR requests Commission investigation into KORUS, and other recent filings
Since CapTrade’s last article on recent 701 (countervailing duty) & 731 (antidumping duty) Petitions and 337 Complaints, there have been several new filings in the past few weeks. Most notably, the...
View ArticleChina Targets Key U.S. Industries in Retaliation to Sections 232 & 301
Escalating trade tensions between the United States and China have resulted in multiple actions that threaten to significantly alter trade flows between the world’s two largest national economies. The...
View ArticleRecent Petitions and Complaints Filed at the USITC
There have been numerous filings at the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC), since our last article. Recent filings include 337 Complaints, 701 (countervailing duty) & 731 (antidumping...
View ArticleRecent Filings at the USITC
As 2018 came to a close, there were numerous new filings at the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC)[1]. Since our last article, these filings include 337 Complaints, 701 (countervailing duty)...
View ArticleDepartment of Commerce Issues 40 Days of Tolling for AD and CVD Deadlines
The Department of Commerce has issued guidance on deadlines impacted by the government shutdown. The memo is attached below. The DOC has decided to toll all deadlines for 40 days, except for requests...
View ArticleCapTrade Individuals Sweep Top Two Spots in Global Ranking of Trade Consultants
Charles (Chuck) Anderson and Daniel Klett were named the number 1 and number 2 “Global Elite Thought Leaders,” respectively, in a recent ranking published by Who’s Who Legal (“WWL”), Trade and Customs,...
View ArticleWhich Costs More: Cloth or Disposable Diapers?
I have just welcomed my third child into the world. Her small presence has brought many large changes to our routines, including, for the first time, the use of cloth rather than disposable diapers....
View ArticleChina’s New Dispute at the WTO Against US Tariffs
In recent months, the USTR announced steps for implementing 15 percent[1] tariffs on approximately $300 billion worth of goods imported from China.[2] The USTR listed a wide variety of goods that...
View ArticleThe USMCA: Key Changes to NAFTA and Their Economic Impacts
The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) was signed by the three nations on November 30, 2018. After over a year of deliberation in Congress, a modified form was passed by the House in...
View ArticleUsing the GTAP Model to Simulate Second Quarter Real GDP
According to the advance GDP release (4/29/20), the U.S. economy contracted by 4.8 percent during the first quarter of 2020. Though not as bad as the 8.4 percent quarterly decline that occurred during...
View ArticleCapTrade’s Analysis of Blueberry Market Discussed by Industry Press
A CapTrade report on the U.S. blueberry industry has garnered attention from industry press outlets Fresh Fruit Portal and Agronometrics. The CapTrade report, “Analysis of Serious Injury and Causation...
View ArticleNew Administration, New USTR — And a New Approach to Trade Policy?
This analysis draws heavily upon the video recording for USTR Tai’s confirmation hearing, for which there is no written transcript. Citations to that hearing refer to the hour, minute, and second...
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