The International Trade Administration (ITA) frequently issues notices on antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) duty orders which Broker Power considers to be "minor" in importance as they concern actions that occur after an order is issued and neither announce nor cause any changes to an order's duty rates, scope, affected firms, or effective period.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a notice stating that it has been informed that the criteria for HTS 9808.00.3000 emergency war material was inadvertently allowed to lapse for the period of December 1, 2003 - January 13, 2004.

On March 15, 2004, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ordered most of the Department of the Interior, including the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), to disconnect all of their computer systems from the Internet as a result of an ongoing dispute over the Department of the Interior's maintenance and preservation of individual Indian trust data.

The International Trade Administration (ITA) has amended its final results of the antidumping (AD) duty administrative review of gray and portland cement and clinker from Mexico for the review period of August 1, 1996 through July 31, 1997, as there is now a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Binational Panel notice of final action which affects CEMEX, S.A. de C.V. (CEMEX) and GCC Cemento, S.A. de C.V. (GCCC)^{1 2}.

The Commerce Department's Office of Textiles and Apparel (OTEXA) has issued its Major Shippers Textiles and Apparel Report, which contains selected general import statistics by date of import from the Census Bureau through January 31, 2004 by country and category (including merged and part category).

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) has posted to its Web site the reports of 32 Trade Advisory Committees on the proposed U.S.-Australia Free Trade Agreement (Australia FTA).

The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) has posted to its Web site a notice detailing its next upcoming informational seminar entitled, Navigating the Regulations, which will be held in Philadelphia, PA on April 21, 2004. The FMC states that this seminar provides an overview of the responsibilities of vessel operators, ocean transportation intermediaries (OTIs) and maritime shipping services users in U.S. foreign trades.

On March 4, 2004, the Senate passed its version of H.R. 1047, the "Miscellaneous Trade and Technical Corrections Act of 2003."

The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) has issued a notice announcing that it has received a petition from FedEx Trade Networks Transport & Brokerage, Inc. (FedEx) for an exemption from the tariff publishing and adherence requirements of the Shipping Act of 1984, as amended (Shipping Act) in order to permit it to depart from the provisions of its tariff and enter into confidential service contracts for ocean transportation services with shippers.