The International Trade Commission has initiated an investigation into trade-related barriers affecting exports by US small and medium-sized enterprises into the UK for manufactured products, agricultural goods and services.
The factfinding investigation will look into trade-related barriers that SMEs perceive as disproportionately affecting US SMEs exporting to the UK, compared to larger US exporters to the UK.
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The USITC, an independent, non-partisan, factfinding federal agency, will catalogue the barriers. The report will focus primarily on barriers identified by US SMEs that have experience in exporting to the UK, either directly or through supply chains; identify barriers by economic sector or by special issue to the degree practicable; and build on four previous SME studies that were released by the USITC in 2010 and 2014.
The investigation, ‘US SME Exports: Trade-Related Barriers Affecting Exports of US Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises to the United Kingdom’, was requested by the US Trade Representative (USTR) on 3 August.
USITC general factfinding investigations, such as this one, cover matters related to tariffs or trade and are generally conducted at the request of the US Trade Representative, the House Committee on Ways and Means, or the Senate Committee on Finance.
The ITC will hold a public hearing in connection with this investigation on 26 February 2019. Requests to appear at the hearing are due by 8 February, and pre-hearing briefs and statements are due by 13 February. Post-hearing briefs are due by 8 March and all other written submissions are due by 15 March, according to international law firm Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg.
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By GlobalDataThe ITC expects to submit its final report to USTR by 31 July.
