[20050406]RS21985_加拿大生猪贸易争端.pdf

1 The ITC investigations were announced on March 16, 2004 (69 Federal Register, p. 12347),and the DOC investigations on April 14, 2004 (69 Federal Register, p. 19815 and p. 19818).Congressional Research Service The Library of CongressCRS Report for CongressReceived through the CRS WebOrder Code RS21985Updated April 6, 2005The Canadian Hog Trade DisputeGeoffrey S. BeckerSpecialist in Agricultural PolicyResources, Science, and Industry DivisionSummaryOn April 6, 2005, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) made a finaldetermination that imports of live Canadian hogs are not materially injuring the U.S. hogindustry. The ITCs negative determination culminates investigations requested inMarch 2004 by U.S. pork producers under U.S. antidumping (AD) and countervailingduty (CVD) laws, and means that no import duty order will be imposed. The ITCsdecision came despite an earlier U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) finaldetermination that producers/exporters have sold live swine from Canada at less thanfair value. DOC also earlier announced its final CVD determination that countervailablesubsidies are not being provided to Canadian producer/exporters, ending the CVDinvestigation. This re