On July 10, 2014, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) published in the Federal Register a document [NRC-2014-0112] issuing an International Policy Statement. The International Policy Statement captures a brief history of almost 40 years of involvement in international activities and how this has impacted the NRC. The International Policy Statement also outlines how international activities directly support the NRC’s goals and mission, and enumerates specific elements in which the NRC will proactively engage.

On July 3, 2014, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) announced country-specific reallocations of the fiscal year (FY) 2014 in-quota quantity of the World Trade Organization (WTO) tariff-rate quota (TRQ) for imported raw cane sugar. TRQs allow countries to export specified quantities of a product to the United States at a relatively low tariff, but subject all imports of the product above a pre-determined threshold to a higher tariff. Based on consultations with…

The US International Trade Commission (ITC) released the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (2014) (Revision 1) Annotated (HTSA, HTS or HTSUS) for download. The revisions were effective on July 1. As in past years, the HTSA is also available in a chapter-by-chapter format and will soon be available in a delimited text file. The revisions appear in the Change Record. Most revisions were to the statistical suffixes as a result of the “484(f)” Committee.…