Steel Products
April 19, 2018
Leibowitz on Trade: May 1 Deadline Fast Approaching
Written by Tim Triplett
Trade attorney and Steel Market Update contributor Lewis Leibowitz offers the following update on recent events in Washington:
• By my count, the Bureau of Industry and Security at Commerce has posted 82 exclusion requests for steel and aluminum combined. The Washington Post reported that 1,200 requests had been submitted to BIS. The NPR program Marketplace yesterday reported their sources said 2,200 had been filed. Who’s right? No more than one. The point is that the system is overloaded. Sources at Enforcement and Compliance (the antidumping and countervailing duty shop at Commerce), said some analysts were detailed to BIS to work down the backlog. This is likely to be a frustrating process until they get it down to a routine.
