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News Release 23-069
Inv. No(s). TA-201-076 (Evaluation)
Contact: Lawrence Jones, 202-205-1819
The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) today submitted to the President and the Congress a report evaluating the effectiveness of the safeguard measure on imports of large residential washers and certain parts thereof in facilitating positive adjustment by the domestic industry to import competition.
Section 204(d) of the Trade Act of 1974 (the “Act”) requires the USITC, upon termination of a safeguard measure, to evaluate the effectiveness of the action in facilitating positive adjustment by the domestic industry to import competition, consistent with the reasons set out by the President in the report submitted to the Congress under section 203(b) of the Act. The safeguard action on large residential washers went into effect on February 7, 2018, and after one extension, terminated on February 7, 2023. The Commission is required to submit a report on the evaluation to the President and the Congress no later than 180 days after the day on which the relief action was terminated.
The Commission’s public report Large Residential Washers: Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Import Relief (Inv. No. TA-201-076 (Evaluation), USITC Publication 5453, August 2023) will be available by August 7, 2023; when available, it may be accessed on the USITC website at: https://www.usitc.gov/commission_publications_library.
BACKGROUND
On January 23, 2018, following an affirmative injury determination by the Commission under the global safeguard law, the President issued a proclamation imposing tariff rate quotas on imports of large residential washers and certain parts thereof. The remedy took effect on February 7, 2018, for a period of three years and one day.
On January 14, 2021, following receipt of a petition requesting an extension of the relief action and the Commission’s subsequent determination that the safeguard measure continued to be necessary to prevent or remedy the serious injury to the domestic industry and that there was evidence that the domestic industry was making a positive adjustment to import competition, the President extended the safeguard measure through February 7, 2023.
On February 7, 2023, the safeguard action imposed by the President terminated. In accordance with the safeguard law, the Commission conducted an investigation and prepared a report evaluating the effectiveness of the action in facilitating positive adjustment by the domestic industry to import competition, consistent with the reasons set out by the President in the report submitted to the Congress.