ITC Issues 2009 Report of Major Trade-Related Activities
The International Trade Commission has released "The Year in Trade 2009: Operation of the Trade Agreements Program," its annual overview of the previous year's trade-related activities.
According to the ITC, this annual publication is one of the government's most comprehensive reports of U.S. trade-related activities, covering major multilateral, regional, and bilateral developments.
Covers U.S. Cases Undertaken in 2009, Trade Agreement Work, Etc.
The Year in Trade 2009 includes the following:
- Trade preference operations - the operation of U.S. trade preference programs, including the U.S. Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), the Andean Trade Preference Act (ATPA), and the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act (CBERA);
- AD/CV, Section 301, IPR cases - complete listings of antidumping, countervailing duty, safeguard, intellectual property rights infringement, and section 301 cases undertaken by the U.S. government in 2009.
- WTO activities - significant activities in the WTO, including its dispute settlement mechanism; the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum;
- ACTA negotiations - negotiation of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement;
- FTA developments - developments in U.S. free trade agreements, including activities under the North American Free Trade Agreement and negotiations to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement; and
- Major bilateral trade issues - bilateral trade issues with major U.S. trading partners, including the European Union, Canada, China, Mexico, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Brazil, and India.
- Overview of U.S. trade - an overview of U.S. trade in goods and services during 2009. Statistical tables highlight U.S. bilateral trade with major trading partners and trade under U.S. trade preference programs.
(Press release, dated 07/21/10, available here)